MIT Press Spring 2016 Catalog by The MIT Press

the mit press | spring 2016

Dear Friends,

CONTENTS

When I landed in Cambridge in 1985 to start graduate school at MIT, Kendall Square was a bleak place, especially from the perspective of a Manhattan native. There was only one walking-distance option for lunch, a greasy spoon called the F&T Diner. The MIT Press Bookstore on Main Street was a gleaming oasis and I spent many an hour there during my student years hunting down the newest and best books on mind, brain, language, and computation. I never could have imagined then that thirty years later I would assume the helm of the MIT Press. Nor could I have imagined the vibrant Kendall Square of 2015. At the Press, as in the Square, the excitement of renewal is palpable, as we build up and beyond our great strengths: our unique aesthetic – one of beautifully designed books, and works of equal rigor in the sciences and the visual arts – and our distinctive legacy of successful experimentation, in substance and in format. I perceive a sense of renewal and excitement among booksellers, too. In fact, the phrase “wise men fish here” from the iconic Gotham Book Mart sign came to mind as I set out to write this introduction to our spring 2016 list, although it would be more apt to say “wise men and women fish here.” Where else do Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Alan Turing, Andy Warhol, Noam Chomsky, and Bruno Latour cohabitate? What other list spans blockchains, drones, auctions, pleasure, ecology, gaming, and architectural robotics? Where else can readers go for world-changing ideas on comparative brain anatomy, gender and work, and how Google searches will ultimately improve healthcare? I couldn’t be more thrilled and proud to return to the MIT Press, to continue our distinguished tradition of university press publishing with an edge and an attitude.

Trade 1-44

Amy Brand, director

Academic Trade 47-59 Professional 60-84 Paperback Reprints 85-98 Journals 99-101 The Digital MIT Press 102 Order Information 103-106 Index 107-109 Recent Highlights 110-111 Backlist Highlights Inside Back Cover

Distributed by the MIT Press Afterall Books 30 Zone Books 37-38 Semiotext(e) 39-44

Front cover: Illustration by Lorena Kaz, from Suzana Herculano-Houzel’s The Human Advantage

science

trade

The Human Advantage A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable Suzana Herculano-Houzel Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals, but not because we are evolutionary outliers. The human brain was not singled out to become amazing in its own exclusive way, and it never stopped being a primate brain. If we are not an exception to the rules of evolution, then what is the source of the human advantage? Herculano-Houzel shows that it is not the size of our brain that matters but the fact that we have more neurons in the cerebral cortex than any other animal, thanks to our ancestors’ invention, some 1.5 million years ago, of a more efficient way to obtain calories: cooking. Because we are primates, ingesting more calories in less time made possible the rapid acquisition of a huge number of neurons in the still fairly small cerebral cortex—the part of the brain responsible for finding patterns, reasoning, developing technology, and passing it on through culture. Herculano-Houzel shows us how she came to these conclusions— making “brain soup” to determine the number of neurons in the brain, for example, and bringing animal brains in a suitcase through customs. The Human Advantage is an engaging and original look at how we became remarkable without ever being special. Suzana Herculano-Houzel is Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking. April 6 x 9, 264 pp. 79 illus. $29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-0-262-03425-8

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

economics | business

The Sharing Economy The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism Arun Sundararajan

The wide-ranging implications of the shift to a sharing economy, a new model of organizing economic activity that may supplant traditional corporations. May 6 x 9, 224 pp. 16 illus. $26.95T/£18.95 cloth 978-0-262-03457-9

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Sharing isn’t new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club— these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the “sharing economy,” is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are providing these services to a stranger for money. In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as “crowd-based capitalism”—a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model. As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, how will the economy, government regulation, what it means to have a job, and our social fabric be affected? Drawing on extensive research and numerous real-world examples— including Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Etsy, TaskRabbit, France’s BlaBlaCar, China’s Didi Kuaidi, and India’s Ola, Sundararajan explains the basics of crowd-based capitalism. He describes the intriguing mix of “gift” and “market” in its transactions, demystifies emerging blockchain technologies, and clarifies the dizzying array of emerging on-demand platforms. He considers how this new paradigm changes economic growth and the future of work. Will we live in a world of empowered entrepreneurs who enjoy professional flexibility and independence? Or will we become disenfranchised digital laborers scurrying between platforms in search of the next wedge of piecework? Sundararajan highlights the important policy choices and suggests possible new directions for self-regulatory organizations, labor law, and funding our social safety net. Arun Sundararajan is a Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. A recognized authority on the sharing economy, he has published op-eds and commentary in such publications as Time, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Wired, Le Monde, Harvard Business Review, and the Financial Times.

game studies

How Games Move Us Emotion by Design Katherine Isbister This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion? In How Games Move Us, Katherine Isbister takes the reader on a timely and novel exploration of the design techniques that evoke strong emotions for players. She counters arguments that games are creating a generation of isolated, emotionally numb, antisocial loners. Games, Isbister shows us, can actually play a powerful role in creating empathy and other strong, positive emotional experiences; they reveal these qualities over time, through the act of playing. She offers a nuanced, systematic examination of exactly how games can influence emotion and social connection, with examples—drawn from popular, indie, and art games—that unpack the gamer’s experience. Isbister describes choice and flow, two qualities that distinguish games from other media, and explains how game developers build upon these qualities using avatars, non-player characters, and character customization, in both solo and social play. She shows how designers use physical movement to enhance players’ emotional experience, and examines longdistance networked play. She illustrates the use of these design methods with examples that range from Sony’s Little Big Planet to the much-praised indie game Journey to art games like Brenda Romero’s Train. Isbister’s analysis shows us a new way to think about games, helping us appreciate them as an innovative and powerful medium for doing what film, literature, and other creative media do: helping us to understand ourselves and what it means to be human. Katherine Isbister is Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the author of Better Game Characters by Design. She was the founding Director of the Game Innovation Lab at New York University.

An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games. March 5 3/8 x 8, 160 pp. 47 illus. $24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-03426-5 Playful Thinking series

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

business | management

China’s Next Strategic Advantage From Imitation to Innovation George S. Yip and Bruce McKern

A book for everyone who does business with China or in China. May 6 x 9, 272 pp. 18 illus. $31.95T/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03458-6

The history-making development of the Chinese economy has entered a new phase. China is moving aggressively from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation. Driven both by domestic needs and by global ambition, China is establishing itself at the forefront of technological innovation. Western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave of innovation from China that is about to hit Western markets, and Chinese businesses need to understand the critical importance of innovation in their future. Experts George Yip and Bruce McKern explain this epic transformation and propose strategies for both Western and Chinese companies. This book is for everyone who does business with China or in China, or is interested in the development of the world’s fastest-growing economy. Western CEOs can learn from Chinese companies and can create an effective innovation process in China, for China and the world. Chinese CEOs can benefit from understanding the strategies of their peers as they strive to enter foreign markets. And all Western businesses should prepare for disruption from their new competitors. Yip and McKern provide case studies of successful firms, outline ten ways in which the managerial and innovative capabilities of these firms differ from those of Western firms, and describe how multinationals doing business in China can become part of the Chinese ecosystem of new knowledge and technology. Yip and McKern argue that these innovation capabilities will be the basis for creating world-class products and services to meet the challenges of a new era of global competition. George S. Yip is Professor of Strategy at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai and Co-Director of its Centre on China Innovation. Bruce McKern is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Visiting Professor at CEIBS, and Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University and INSEAD.

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

linguistics | evolutionary biology

Why Only Us Language and Evolution Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished linguists addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define “language” and therefore what it was that had evolved. But since the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients of language and can put together an account of the evolution of human language and what distinguishes us from all other animals. Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and understanding; the tension between Darwin’s idea of gradual change and our contemporary understanding about evolutionary change and language; and evidence from nonhuman animals, in particular vocal learning in songbirds. Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT and the author of Computational Complexity and Natural Language and The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge, both published by the MIT Press. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the MIT Press.

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans’ remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. March 5 3/8 x 8, 224 pp. 4 color illus., 7 black & white illus. $22.95T/£15.95 cloth 978-0-262-03424-1

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

art

Reset Modernity! edited by Bruno Latour

Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity’s operating system? June 7 x 10, 432 pp. 300 color illus. $47.95T/£33.95 cloth 978-0-262-03459-3 Copublished with ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. Also available The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds edited by Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg, and Peter Weibel 2013, 978-0-262-51834-5 $54.95T/£37.95 paper

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Modernity has had so many meanings and carries so many contradictory values that it crashes like a computer program full of bugs every time we use it to define the future. We need to reset modernity’s operating system. This is what the contributors to Reset Modernity! try to do, asking us to experience the range of contradictory values of modernity and identify what to keep and what to abandon. Reset Modernity! shows the vital importance of deciding how we Exhibition will inhabit the Earth in the future without ZKM | Center for Art and losing the values that we have learned to Media, Karlsruhe cherish during the history of the moderns. April 10, 2016–September 4, 2016 Reset Modernity!, which accompanies a major exhibition at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, relies for conceptual inspiration on Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and the innovative web project, modesofexistence.org (AIME). The goal is to document the shock generated by the meeting between modernity and ecological mutation. The book, generously illustrated, with color throughout, includes short essays by participants in AIME as well as longer texts by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, and others. They discuss such topics as why the global is not that global and why the natural is not that natural; the ethology of pluralism (“What are politicians for?”); and the ground on which walk and live. Bruno Latour, a philosopher and anthropologist, is the author of Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Our Modern Cult of the Factish Gods, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, and many other books. He curated the ZKM exhibits ICONOCLASH and Making Things Public and coedited the accompanying catalogs, both published by the MIT Press. Contributors Jamie Allen, Terence Blake, Michel Callon, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Yves Citton, Didier Debaise, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Gerard de Vries, Philippe Descola, Vinciane Despret, Michael Flower, Jean-Michel Frodon, Sylvain Goudreau, Lesley Green, Graham Harman, Antoine Hennion, Frances Jacques, Pablo Jensen, Bruno Karsenti, Joseph Koerner, Meg Koster, Eduardo Kohn, Bruno Latour, Christophe Leclerq, Armin Linke, James Lovelock, Patrice Maniglier, Kyle McGee, Pierre Montebello, Stephen Muecke, Hans Ulrich Obrist, John Palmesino, Donato Ricci, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Henning Schmidgen, Peter Sloterdijk, Isabelle Stengers, François Thoreau, Peter Weibel, Richard White, Jan Zalaciewicz

science

Crowdsourced Health How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine Elad Yom-Tov Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American Internet users have logged on to ask questions like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches could show doctors and medical researchers something new and interesting? What if the data generated by our searches could reveal information about health that would be difficult to gather in other ways? In this book, Elad Yom-Tov argues that Internet data could change the way medical research is done, supplementing traditional tools to provide insights not otherwise available. He describes how studies of Internet searches have, among other things, already helped researchers to track side effects of prescription drugs, to understand the information needs of cancer patients and their families, and to recognize some of the causes of anorexia. Yom-Tov shows that the information collected can benefit humanity without sacrificing individual privacy. He explains why people go to the Internet with health questions; for one thing, it seems to be a safe place to ask anonymously about such matters as obesity, sex, and pregnancy. He describes detrimental effects of “pro-anorexia” online content; tells how computer scientists can scour search engine data to improve public health by, for example, identifying risk factors for disease and centers of contagion; and tells how analyses of how people deal with upsetting diagnoses help doctors to treat patients and patients to understand their conditions. Elad Yom-Tov is Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and Visiting Scientist at Technion-Israel Institute for Technology. He previously held positions at Yahoo Research and IBM Research.

How data from our health-related Internet searches can lead to discoveries about diseases and symptoms and help patients deal with diagnoses. April 5 3/8 x 8, 160 pp. 1 illus. $26.95T/£18.95 cloth 978-0-262-03450-0

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

business | innovation

The Disruption Dilemma Joshua Gans

An expert in management takes on the conventional wisdom about disruption, looking at companies that proved resilient and offering managers tools for survival.

“Disruption” is a business buzzword that has gotten out of control. Today everything and everyone seem to be characterized as disruptive—or, if they aren’t disruptive yet, it’s only a matter of time before they become so. In this book, Joshua Gans cuts through the chatter to focus on disruption in its initial use as a business term, identifying new ways to understand it and suggesting new tools to manage it. Almost twenty years ago Clayton Christensen popularized the term in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma, writing of disruption as a set of risks that established firms face. Since then, few have closely examined his account. Gans does so in this book. He looks at companies that have proven resilient and those that have fallen, and explains why some companies have successfully managed disruption—Fujifilm and Canon, for example—and why some like Blockbuster and Encyclopedia Britannica have not. Departing from the conventional wisdom, Gans identifies two kinds of disruption: demand-side, when successful firms focus on their main customers and underestimate market entrants with innovations that target niche demands; and supply-side, when firms focused on developing existing competencies become incapable of developing new ones. Gans describes the full range of actions business leaders can take to deal with each type of disruption, from “self-disrupting” independent internal units to tightly integrated product development. But therein lies the disruption dilemma: A firm cannot practice both independence and integration at once. Gans shows business leaders how to choose their strategy so their firms can deal with disruption while continuing to innovate. Joshua Gans is Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He is the author of Parentonom-

April 6 x 9, 176 pp. 2 illus. $24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-03448-7

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

ics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting (MIT Press), Information Wants to Be Shared, and other books.

economics

Progress and Confusion The State of Macroeconomic Policy edited by Olivier J. Blanchard, Raghuram G. Rajan, Kenneth S. Rogoff, and Lawrence H. Summers What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will it be forced to contend with a post-crisis “new normal”? Have we made progress in addressing these issues, or does confusion remain? In April of 2015, the International Monetary Fund gathered leading economists, both academics and policymakers, to address the shape of future macroeconomic policy. This book is the result, with prominent figures—including Ben Bernanke, Lawrence Summers, and Paul Volcker—offering essays that address topics that range from the measurement of systemic risk to foreign exchange intervention. The chapters address whether we have entered a “new normal” of low growth, negative real rates, and deflationary pressures, with contributors taking opposing views; whether new financial regulation has stemmed systemic risk; the effectiveness of macro prudential tools; monetary policy, the choice of inflation targets, and the responsibilities of central banks; fiscal policy, stimulus, and debt stabilization; the volatility of capital flows; and the international monetary and financial system, including the role of international policy coordination. In light of these discussions, is there progress or confusion regarding the future of macroeconomic policy? In the final chapter, volume editor Olivier Blanchard answers: both. Many lessons have been learned; but, as the chapters of the book reveal, there is no clear agreement on several key issues. Olivier J. Blanchard is C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. Raghuram G. Rajan is the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, on leave from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Kenneth S. Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Lawrence H. Summers is Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President

Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”? May 6 x 9, 320 pp. 46 illus. $31.95T/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03462-3

Emeritus as Harvard University. Contributors Viral V. Acharya, Anat R. Admati, Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Ben Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Marco Buti, Ricardo J. Caballero, Agustín Carstens, Jaime Caruana, J. Bradford DeLong, Martin Feldstein, Vitor Gaspar, John Geanakoplos, Philipp Hildebrand, Gill Marcus, Maurice Obstfeld, Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Rafael Portillo, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth Rogoff, Robert E. Rubin, Lawrence H. Summers, Hyun Song Shin, Lars E. O. Svensson, John B. Taylor, Paul Tucker, José Viñals, Paul A. Volcker

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

science

Turing’s Vision The Birth of Computer Science Chris Bernhardt

Turing’s fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader. April 5 3/8 x 8, 208 pp. 15 illus. $26.95T/£18.95 cloth 978-0-262-03454-8

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all modern computers. This groundbreaking and powerful theory now forms the basis of computer science. In Turing’s Vision, Chris Bernhardt explains the theory, Turing’s most important contribution, for the general reader. Bernhardt argues that the strength of Turing’s theory is its simplicity, and that, explained in a straightforward manner, it is eminently understandable by the nonspecialist. As Marvin Minsky writes, “The sheer simplicity of the theory’s foundation and extraordinary short path from this foundation to its logical and surprising conclusions give the theory a mathematical beauty that alone guarantees it a permanent place in computer theory.” Bernhardt begins with the foundation and systematically builds to the surprising conclusions. He also views Turing’s theory in the context of mathematical history, other views of computation (including those of Alonzo Church), Turing’s later work, and the birth of the modern computer. In the paper, “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem,” Turing thinks carefully about how humans perform computation, breaking it down into a sequence of steps, and then constructs theoretical machines capable of performing each step. Turing wanted to show that there were problems that were beyond any computer’s ability to solve; in particular, he wanted to find a decision problem that he could prove was undecidable. To explain Turing’s ideas, Bernhardt examines three well-known decision problems to explore the concept of undecidability; investigates theoretical computing machines, including Turing machines; explains universal machines; and proves that certain problems are undecidable, including Turing’s problem concerning computable numbers. Chris Bernhardt is Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University.

science | environment

A World to Live In An Ecologist’s Vision for a Plundered Planet George M. Woodwell A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth’s evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe’s life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the biosphere is now a global human protectorate and that its integrity of structure and function are tied closely to the human future. The earth is a living system, Woodwell explains, and its stability is threatened by human disruption. Industry dumps its waste globally and makes a profit from it, invading the global commons; corporate interests overpower weak or nonexistent governmental protection to plunder the planet. The fossil fuels industry offers the most dramatic example of environmental destruction, disseminating the heat-trapping gases that are now warming the earth and changing the climate forever. The assumption that we can continue to use fossil fuels and “adapt” to climate disruption, Woodwell argues, is a ticket to catastrophe. But Woodwell points the way toward a solution. We must respect the full range of life on earth—not species alone, but their natural communities of plant and animal life that have built, and still maintain, the biosphere. We must recognize that the earth’s living systems are our heritage and that the preservation of the integrity of a finite biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right. George M. Woodwell is Founder, President, and Director Emeritus of the Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a former president of the Ecological Society of America, a founding trustee and Vice Chairman of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the author of Forests in a Full World, The Nature of House: Building a World That Works, and other books.

A scientist makes a powerful case that preservation of the integrity of the biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right. March 6 x 9, 248 pp. $31.95T/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03407-4

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

economics | women in business | memoir

Sharing the Work What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others) Myra Strober foreword by John Donahoe, Chair of the Board, PayPal, and former CEO, eBay

The tumultuous life and career of a woman who fought gender bias on multiple fronts—in theory and in practice, for herself and for us all. May 6 x 9, 240 pp. $29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-0-262-03438-8

Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley’s economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her family’s dinner, she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Flooded with anger, she also finds her life’s work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Strober’s generous memoir captures the spirit of a revolution lived fully, from her Brooklyn childhood (and her shock at age twelve when she’s banished to the women’s balcony at shul) to her groundbreaking Stanford seminar on women and work. Strober’s interest in women and work began when she saw her mother’s frustration at the limitations of her position as a secretary. Her consciousness of the unfairness of the usual distribution of household chores came when she unsuccessfully asked her husband for help with housework. Later, when a group of conservative white male professors sputtered at the idea of governmentsubsidized child care, Strober made the case for its economic benefits. In the 1970s, the term “sexual harassment” had not yet been coined. Occupational segregation, quantifying the value of work in the home, and the cost of discrimination were new ideas. Strober was a pioneer, helping to create a new academic field and founding institutions to establish it. But she wasn’t alone: she benefited from the women’s movement, institutional change, and new federal regulations that banned sex discrimination. She continues the work today and invites us to join her. Myra Strober is a labor economist. She is Professor (Emerita) at the School of Education at Stanford University, and Professor of Economics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (by courtesy). She is the coauthor of The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan (MIT Press).

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

business | management

Winning the Reputation Game Creating Stakeholder Value and Competitive Advantage Grahame R. Dowling What does a company have to do to be admired and respected? Why does Apple have a better reputation than, say, Samsung? In Winning the Reputation Game, Grahame Dowling explains. Companies’ reputations do not derive from consultant-recommended campaigns to showcase efforts at corporate transparency, environmental sustainability, or social responsibility. Companies are admired and respected because they are “simply better” than their competitors. Companies that focus on providing outstanding goods and services are rewarded with a strong reputation that helps them gain competitive advantage. Dowling, who has studied corporate reputation-building for thirty years, describes two core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage: to be known for being Best at Something or for being Best for Somebody. Apple, for example, is best at personal technology products that enhance people’s lifestyles. IKEA is best for people who want well-designed furniture at affordable prices. Dowling covers such topics as the commercial value of a strong reputation—including good employees, repeat customers, and strong share price; how corporate reputations are formed; the power of “being simply better”; the effectiveness of corporate storytelling (for good or ill; Kenneth Lay of Enron was a master storyteller); and keeping out of trouble. Drawing on many real-world examples, Dowling shows how companies that are perceived to be better than their competitors build strong reputations that reflect past success and promise more of the same. Companies that artificially engineer a reputation with irrelevant activities but have stopped providing the best products and services available often wind up with mediocre—or worse—reputations. Grahame R. Dowling is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, where he was affiliated with the Australian Graduate School of Management and the Australian School of Business. He is now Professor of Marketing

Core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace: a back-to-basics approach. May 6 x 9, 272 pp. 15 illus. $36.95T/£25.95 cloth 978-0-262-03446-3

at the University of Technology Sydney and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. He is also the author of Creating Corporate Reputations.

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

current affairs | technology

Drone Remote Control Warfare Hugh Gusterson

Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international law, military thinkers, and others. May 5 3/8 x 8, 216 pp. 13 illus. $24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-03467-8

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing warfare with minimal civilian deaths while keeping American pilots out of harm’s way. Critics say that drones are cowardly and that they often kill innocent civilians while terrorizing entire villages on the ground. In this book, Hugh Gusterson explores the significance of drone warfare from multiple perspectives, drawing on accounts by drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, human rights activists, international lawyers, journalists, military thinkers, and academic experts. Gusterson examines the way drone warfare has created commuter warriors and redefined the space of the battlefield. He looks at the paradoxical mix of closeness and distance involved in remote killing: is it easier than killing someone on the physical battlefield if you have to watch onscreen? He suggests a new way of understanding the debate over civilian casualties of drone attacks. He maps “ethical slippage” over time in the Obama administration’s targeting practices. And he contrasts Obama administration officials’ legal justification of drone attacks with arguments by international lawyers and NGOs. Hugh Gusterson is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of Nuclear Rites and People of the Bomb: Portraits of America’s Nuclear Complex.

science | psychology

Felt Time The Psychology of How We Perceive Time Marc Wittmann translated by Erik Butler We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. (“Are we there yet?”) Boredom is often connected to our sense of time passing (or not passing). As people grow older, time seems to speed up, the years flitting by without a pause. How does our sense of time come about? In Felt Time, Marc Wittmann explores the riddle of subjective time, explaining our perception of time—whether moment by moment, or in terms of life as a whole. Drawing on the latest insights from psychology and neuroscience, Wittmann offers a new answer to the question of how we experience time. Wittmann explains, among other things, how we choose between savoring the moment and deferring gratification; why impulsive people are bored easily, and why their boredom is often a matter of time; whether each person possesses a personal speed, a particular brain rhythm distinguishing quick people from slow people; and why the feeling of duration can serve as an “error signal,” letting us know when it is taking too long for dinner to be ready or for the bus to come. He considers the practice of mindfulness, and whether it can reduce the speed of life and help us gain more time, and he describes how, as we grow older, subjective time accelerates as routine increases; a fulfilled and varied life is a long life. Evidence shows that bodily processes—especially the heartbeat—underlie our feeling of time and act as an internal clock for our sense of time. And Wittmann points to recent research that connects time to consciousness; ongoing studies of time consciousness, he tells us, will help us to understand the conscious self. Marc Wittmann is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany.

An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness. March 5 3/8 x 8, 192 pp. 11 illus. $24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-03402-9

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

cultural studies | media studies | art

Adjusted Margin Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century Kate Eichhorn

How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. March 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 224 pp. 22 illus. $26.95T/£18.95 cloth 978-0-262-03396-1

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by making it convenient and affordable for renegade publishers, zinesters, artists, punks, anarchists, queers, feminists, street activists, and others to publish their work and to get their messages out on the street. The xerographic copier adjusted the lived and imagined margins of society, Eichhorn argues, by supporting artistic and political expression and mobilizing subcultural movements. Eichhorn describes early efforts to use xerography to create art and the occasional scapegoating of urban copy shops and xerographic technologies following political panics, using the post-9/11 raid on a Toronto copy shop as her central example. She examines New York’s downtown art and punk scenes of the 1970s to 1990s, arguing that xerography—including photocopied posters, mail art, and zines—changed what cities looked like and how we experienced them. And she looks at how a generation of activists and artists deployed the copy machine in AIDS and queer activism while simultaneously introducing the copy machine’s gritty, DIY aesthetics into international art markets. Xerographic copy machines are now defunct. Office copiers are digital, and activists rely on social media more than photocopied posters. And yet, Eichhorn argues, even though we now live in a post-xerographic era, the grassroots aesthetics and political legacy of xerography persists. Kate Eichhorn is Associate Professor of Culture and Media Studies at the New School. She is the author of The Archival Turn in Feminism.

art

The Curatorial Conundrum What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice? edited by Paul O’Neill, Mick Wilson, and Lucy Steeds Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition. The expansion of the curatorial field in recent decades has raised questions about exhibition-making itself and the politics of production, display, and distribution. The Curatorial Conundrum looks at the burgeoning field of curatorship and tries to imagine its future. Indeed, practitioners and theorists consider a variety of futures: the future of curatorial education; the future of curatorial research; the future of curatorial and artistic practice; and the institutions that will make these other futures possible. The contributors examine the proliferation of graduate programs in curatorial studies over the last twenty years, and consider what can be taught without giving up what is precisely curatorial, within the ever-expanding parameters of curatorial practice in recent times. They discuss curating as collaborative research, asking what happens when exhibition operates as a mode of research in its own right. They explore curatorial practice as an exercise in questioning the world around us; and they speculate about what it will take to build new, innovative, and progressive curatorial research institutions. Paul O’Neill is a curator, artist, and writer who has curated or co-curated more than fifty projects. The author of The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture (MIT Press), he is currently Director of the Graduate Program at the

The future of curatorial practice: how education, research, and institutions can adapt to the expansion of the curatorial field.

Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Mick Wilson is an artist, educator, and writer. He is Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Dublin, Martins, University of the Arts, London.

April 7 x 10 1/2, 350 pp. 100 illus.

Contributors

$34.95T/£24.95 paper 978-0-262-52910-5

Ireland. Lucy Steeds is Pathway Leader in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint

Nancy Adajania, Thomas Boutoux, Mélanie Bouteloup, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Luis Camnitzer, Eddie Chambers, Zasha Colah, Galit Eilat, Annie Fletcher, Lia Gangitano, Liam Gillick, Vladimir Jeriç, Koyo Kouho, Miguel A. López,

Copublished with the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College/Luma Foundation

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O’Neill, Tobias Ostrander, Joao Ribas, Sarah Rifky, Peter J. Russo, Sumesh Sharma, Simon Sheikh, Lucy Steeds, Jeannine Tang, David Teh, Jelena Vesiç, Mick Wilson, Vivian Ziherl,

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

The MIT Press essenTIal Knowledge serIes

$14.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-51679-2

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-52773-6

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-51767-6

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-52850-4

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-51763-8

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-51823-9

$14.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-51847-5

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-52851-1

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-52543-5

$14.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-52579-4

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-52549-7

$15.95T | £10.95 paper 978-0-262-52780-4

spRiNg 2016 | mitpRess.mit.edU

economics

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

Auctions Timothy P. Hubbard and Harry J. Paarsch Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today’s economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling advertising on the Internet to course assignment at MIT’s Sloan School. And yet beyond the small number of economists who specialize in the subject, few people understand how auctions really work. This concise, accessible, and engaging book explains both the theory and the practice of auctions. It describes the main auction formats and pricing rules, develops a simple model to explain bidder behavior, and provides a range of real-world examples. The authors explain what constitutes an auction and how auctions can be modeled as games of asymmetric information—that is, games in which some players know something that other players do not. They characterize behavior in these strategic situations and maintain a focus on the real world by illustrating their discussions with examples that include not just auctions held by eBay and Sotheby’s, but those used by Google, the U.S. Treasury, TaskRabbit, and charities. Readers will begin to understand how economists model auctions and how the rules of the auction shape bidder incentives. They will appreciate the role auctions play in our modern economy and understand why these selling mechanisms are so resilient. Timothy P. Hubbard is Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College. After initial appointments at the University of British Columbia and the University of Western Ontario, Harry J. Paarsch held the position of Professor of Economics and Robert Jensen Research Fellow in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa and subsequently Chair in Economics at the University of Melbourne. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as an applied economist and data scientist for Amazon.com.

How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay. March 5 x 7, 264 pp. 6 illus. $15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52853-5 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

technology | business

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

Cloud Computing Nayan B. Ruparelia

Why cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for business, and how business users can best take advantage of cloud services. April 5 x 7, 232 pp. 41 illus. $15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52909-9 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user’s viewpoint—the business user’s in particular. Nayan Ruparelia explains what the cloud is, when to use it (and when not to), how to select a cloud service, how to integrate it with other technologies, and what the best practices are for using cloud computing. Cutting through the hype, Ruparelia cites the simple and basic definition of cloud computing from the National Institute of Science and Technology: a model enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Thus with cloud computing, businesses can harness information technology resources usually available only to large enterprises. And this, Ruparelia demonstrates, represents a paradigm shift for business. It will ease funding for startups, alter business plans, and allow big businesses greater agility. Ruparelia discusses the key issues for any organization considering cloud computing: service level agreements, business service delivery and consumption, finance, legal jurisdiction, security, and social responsibility. He introduces novel concepts made possible by cloud computing: cloud cells, or specialist clouds for specific uses; the personal cloud; the cloud of things; and cloud service exchanges. He examines use case patterns in terms of infrastructure and platform, software information, and business process; and he explains how to transition to a cloud service. Current and future users will find this book an indispensable guide to the cloud. Nayan B. Ruparelia is an entrepreneur in London. He has more than thirty years of experience in technology, and from 2007 to 2015 he was Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard UK.

science | technology

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

The Quantified Self Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. The term quantified self (popularized by journalist Gary Wolf) refers to how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, as well as to the tools they use and the communities they become part of. This book describes what happens when people turn their everyday experience—in particular, health and wellness-related experience—into data, and offers an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of the quantified self. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus consider the quantified self as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how the quantified self enables users to connect to, and learn from, others. Neff and Nafus consider what’s at stake when we quantify ourselves—who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely unquantified life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates. Gina Neff is Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Washington and the School of Public Policy at Central European University. She is the author of Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (MIT Press). Dawn Nafus is Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs and the editor of Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life (MIT Press).

What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of the quantified self. May 5 x 7, 264 pp. 4 illus. $15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52912-9 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

art | media

Documentary Across Disciplines edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg

Artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. March 5 1/2 x 9, 320 pp. 40 illus. $24.95T/£17.95 paper 978-0-262-52906-8 Copublished with the House of World Cultures/Haus der Kulteren der Welt (HKW), Berlin

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Contemporary engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion. Discarding the old notions of “fly on the wall” immediacy or quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now understand documentary not as the neutral picturing of reality but as a way of coming to terms with reality through images and narrative. This book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, to investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. Their investigations take many forms—essays, personal memoirs, interviews, poetry. Contemporary art turned away from the medium and toward the world, using photography and the moving image to take up global perspectives. Documentary filmmakers, meanwhile, began to work in the gallery context. The contributors consider the hybridization of art and film, and the “documentary turn” of contemporary art. They discuss digital technology and the “crisis of faith” caused by manipulation and generation of images, and the fading of the progressive social mandate that has historically characterized documentary. They consider invisible data and visible evidence; problems of archiving; and surveillance and biometric control, forms of documentation that call for “informatic opacity” as a means of evasion. Erika Balsom is a Lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College London and the author of Exhibition Cinema in Contemporary Art. Hila Peleg is a curator and filmmaker based in Berlin and the founder and artistic director of the Berlin Documentary Forum. Contributors Shaina Anand, Ariella Azoulay, Zach Blas, Stella Bruzzi, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Catherine David, Kris Fallon, Ben Lerner, Sylvère Lotringer, Antonia Majaca, Sohrab Mohebbi, Volker Pantenburg, Véréna Paravel, Christopher Pinney, Ben Rivers, Eyal Sivan

philosophy | psychoanalysis

The Not-Two Logic and God in Lacan Lorenzo Chiesa In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan’s later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan’s Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around the axiom “There is no sexual relationship.” Chiesa provides both a close reading of Lacan’s effort to formalize sexual difference as incompleteness and an assessment of its broader implications for philosophical realism and materialism. Chiesa argues that “There is no sexual relationship” is for Lacan empirically and historically circumscribed by psychoanalysis, yet self-evident in our everyday lives. Lacan believed that we have sex because we love, and that love is a desire to be One in face of the absence of the sexual relationship. Love presupposes a real “not-two.” The not-two condenses the idea that our love and sex lives are dictated by the impossibility of fusing man’s contradictory being with the heteros of woman as a fundamentally uncountable Other. Sexual liaisons are sustained by a transcendental logic, the so-called phallic function that attempts to overcome this impossibility. Chiesa also focuses on Lacan’s critical dialogue with modern science and formal logic, as well as his dismantling of sexuality as considered by mainstream biological discourse. Developing a new logic of sexuation based on incompleteness requires the relinquishing of any alleged logos of life and any teleological evolution. For Lacan, the truth of incompleteness as approached psychoanalytically through sexuality would allow us to go further in debunking traditional onto-theology and replace it with a “para-ontology” yet to be developed. Given the truth of incompleteness, Chiesa asks, can we think such a truth in itself without turning incompleteness into another truth about truth, that is, into yet another figure of God as absolute being? Lorenzo Chiesa is Director of the Genoa School of Humanities. He is the author of Subjectivity and Otherness (MIT Press).

A philosophical examination of the treatment of logic and God in Lacan’s later psychoanalytic theory. May 6 x 9, 304 pp. $28.95T/£19.95 paper 978-0-262-52903-7 Short Circuits series, edited by Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupančič, and Slavoj Žižek

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

philosophy | critical theory

The Trouble with Pleasure Deleuze and Psychoanalysis Aaron Schuster

An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan. March 6 x 9, 232 pp. $25.95T/£17.95 paper 978-0-262-52859-7 Short Circuits series, edited by Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupančič, and Slavoj Žižek

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, two of the most formidable figures of postwar French thought. Though the encounter with psychoanalysis deeply marked Deleuze’s work, we are yet to have a critical account of the very different postures he adopted toward psychoanalysis, and especially Lacanian theory, throughout his career. In The Trouble with Pleasure, Aaron Schuster tackles this tangled relationship head on. The result is neither a Lacanian reading of Deleuze nor a Deleuzian reading of Lacan but rather a systematic and comparative analysis that identifies concerns common to both thinkers and their ultimately incompatible ways of addressing them. Schuster focuses on drive and desire—the strange, convoluted relationship of human beings to the forces that move them from within—“the trouble with pleasure.” Along the way, Schuster offers his own engaging and surprising conceptual analyses and inventive examples. In the “Critique of Pure Complaint” he provides a philosophy of complaining, ranging from Freud’s theory of neurosis to Spinoza’s intellectual complaint of God and the Deleuzian great complaint. Schuster goes on to elaborate, among other things, a theory of love as “mutually compatible symptoms”; an original philosophical history of pleasure, including a hypothetical Heideggerian treatise and a Platonic theory of true pleasure; and an exploration of the 1920s “literature of the death drive,” including Thomas Mann, Italo Svevo, and Blaise Cendrars. Aaron Schuster is a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka, Croatia, and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin. He is Head of the Theory Program at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.

architecture

Attunement Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science Alberto Pérez-Gómez Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected—attuned—to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding. Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Pérez-Gómez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions. Pérez-Gómez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of Stimmung— attunement—and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture—the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how Stimmung might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement. Alberto Pérez-Gómez directs the History and Theory of Architecture Program at McGill University, where he is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture. He is the author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.

How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities. April 6 x 9, 272 pp. $20.95T/£14.95 paper 978-0-262-52864-1 Also available Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science Alberto Pérez-Gómez 1985, 978-0-262-66055-6 $50.00S/£34.95 paper Built upon Love Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics Alberto Pérez-Gómez 2008, 978-0-262-66205-5 $19.95T/£13.95 paper

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

architecture

Noah’s Ark Essays on Architecture Hubert Damisch edited and with an introduction by Anthony Vidler

From Noah’s Ark to Diller + Scofidio’s “Blur” Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture’s origin and development. March 5 3/8 x 8, 392 pp. 61 illus. $30.95T/£21.95 paper 978-0-262-52858-0 Writing Architecture series

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a “displaced philosopher,” Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to “think architecture in a different key,” as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to architecture because it provides “an open series of structural models,” Damisch examines the origin of architecture and then its structural development from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. He leads the reader from Jean-François Blondel to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to Mies van der Rohe to Diller + Scofidio, with stops along the way at the Temple of Jerusalem, Vitruvius’s De Architectura, and the Louvre. In the title essay, Damisch moves easily from Diderot’s Encylopédie to Noah’s Ark (discussing the provisioning, access, floor plan) to the Pan American Building to Le Corbusier to Ground Zero. Noah’s Ark marks the origin of construction, and thus of architecture itself. Diderot’s Encylopédie entry on architecture followed his entry on Noah’s Ark; architecture could only find its way after the Flood. In these thirteen essays, written over a span of forty years, Damisch takes on other histories and theories of architecture to trace a unique trajectory of architectural structure and thought. The essays are, as Vidler says, “a set of exercises” in thinking about architecture. Hubert Damisch is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he has held posts at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington. He is the author of The Origin of Perspective, The Judgment of Paris, Skyline: The Narcissistic City, and A Theory of Cloud: Toward a History of Painting.

architecture | robotics

Architectural Robotics Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology Keith Evan Green The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets, our cars, our appliances; it is ubiquitous— an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Computing is even expanding beyond our devices; sensors, microcontrollers, and actuators are increasingly embedded into the built environment. In Architectural Robotics, Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive, partly intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these “architectural robotic” systems will support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and age. Green tells the stories of three projects from his research lab that exemplify the reconfigurable, distributed, and transfigurable environments of architectural robotics. The Animated Work Environment is a robotic work environment of shape-shifting physical space that responds dynamically to the working life of the people within it; home+ is a suite of networked, distributed “robotic furnishings” integrated into existing domestic and healthcare environments; and LIT ROOM offers a simulated environment in which the physical space of a room merges with the imaginary space of a book, becoming “a portal to elsewhere.” How far beyond workstations, furniture, and rooms can the environments of architectural robotics stretch? Green imagines scaled-up neighborhoods, villages, and metropolises composed of physical bits, digital bytes, living things, and their hybrids. Not global but local, architectural robotics grounds computing in a capacious cyber-physical home. Keith Evan Green is Homer Curtis Mickel and Leola Carter Mickel Endowed Chair in Architecture and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University.

How a built environment that is robotic and interactive becomes an apt home to our restless, dynamic, and increasingly digital society. March 6 x 9, 272 pp. 70 illus. $31.95T/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03395-4

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

photography | history of technology

The Early American Daguerreotype Cross-Currents in Art and Technology Sarah Kate Gillespie

The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. March 7 x 9, 232 pp. 69 color illus. $31.95T/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03410-4 Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as “the American process.” The daguerreotype—now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages—was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced through a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the “American process,” tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts. By the 1860s, the daguerreotype had been supplanted by newer technologies. Its rise (and fall) represents an early instance of the everconstant stream of emerging visual technologies. Sarah Kate Gillespie is Curator of American Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, located at the University of Georgia.

art | game studies

The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer Michael Maizels and Patrick Jagoda A maker of visually elegant and conceptually intricate games, Jason Rohrer is among the most widely heralded art game designers in the short but vibrant history of the field. His games range from the elegantly simple to others of almost Byzantine complexity. Passage (2007)—acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York—uses game rules and procedurals to create a contemporary memento mori that captures an entire lifetime in five minutes. In Chain World (2011), each subsequent player of the game’s Exhibition single copy modifies the rules of the universe. A The Davis Museum Game for Someone (2013) is a board game sealed in a at Wellesley College February–June 2016 box and buried in the Mojave Desert, with a list of one million potential sites distributed to Rohrer’s fan base. (Rohrer estimated that it would take two millennia of constant searching to find the game.) With Chain World and A Game for Someone, Rohrer became the first designer to win the prestigious Game Challenge Design award twice. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, offers a comprehensive account of the artist’s oeuvre. The book documents all seventeen of Rohrer’s finished games, as well as sketches, ephemera, and related material, with color images throughout. It includes entries on individual games (with code in footnotes), artist interviews, artist writings, commentary by high scorers, and interpretive texts. Two introductory essays view Rohrer’s work in the contexts of game studies and art history.

A generously illustrated volume that documents the career of Jason Rohrer, one of the most heralded art game designers working today.

Michael Maizels is the Mellon New Media Curator/Lecturer at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. He is the author of Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath. Patrick Jagoda is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and cofounder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab.

March 6 1/4 x 9, 192 pp. 80 illus. $34.95T/£24.95 paper 978-0-262-52911-2 Copublished with the The Davis Museum at Wellesley College

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

art | dance

Soft Is Fast Simone Forti in the 1960s and After Meredith Morse

An innovative analysis of Simone Forti’s interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s “dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin. March 7 x 9, 264 pp. 29 illus. $36.95T/£25.95 cloth 978-0-262-03397-8

Simone Forti’s art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City’s advanced visual art, dance, and music of the early 1960s. Her “dance constructions” and related works of the 1960s were important for both visual art and dance of the era. Artists Robert Morris and Yvonne Rainer have both acknowledged her influence. Forti seems to have kept one foot inside visual art’s frames of meaning and the other outside them. In Soft Is Fast, Meredith Morse adopts a new way to understand Forti’s work, based in art historical analysis but drawing upon dance history and cultural studies and the history of American social thought. Morse argues that Forti introduced a form of direct encounter that departed radically from the spectatorship proposed by Minimalism, and prefigured the participatory art of recent decades. Morse shows that Forti’s work negotiated John Cage’s ideas of sound, score, and theater through the unique approach to movement, essentially improvisational and grounded in anatomical exploration, that she learned from performer and teacher Ann (later Anna) Halprin. Attentive to Robert Whitman’s and La Monte Young’s responses to Cage, Forti reshaped Cage’s concepts into models that could accommodate Halprin’s charged spaces and imagined, interpenetrative understanding of other bodies. Morse considers Forti’s use of sound and her affective use of materials as central to her work; examines Forti’s text pieces, little discussed in art historical literature; analyzes Huddle, considered one of Forti’s signature works; and explicates Forti’s later improvisational practice. Forti has been relatively overlooked by art historians, perhaps because of her work’s central concern with modes of feeling and embodiment, unlike other art of the 1960s, which was characterized by strategies of depersonalization and affectlessness. Soft Is Fast corrects this critical oversight. Meredith Morse is Assistant Professor of Humanities (Art History) at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. “A page-turner, Soft Is Fast plumbs the depths of Forti’s multi-faceted art, unearthing aspects largely ignored in previous writing about her work. At long last Forti is getting her due in this definitive and exhilarating examination.” —Yvonne Rainer

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

art

Radicalism in the Wilderness International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan Reiko Tomii 1960s Japan was one of the world’s major frontiers of vanguard art. As Japanese artists developed diverse practices parallel to, and sometimes antecedent to, their Western counterparts, they found themselves in a new reality of “international contemporaneity” (kokusaiteki dōjisei). In this book Reiko Tomii examines three key figures in Japanese art of the 1960s who made radical and inventive art in the “wilderness”—away from Tokyo, outside traditional norms, and with little institutional support. These practitioners are the conceptualist Matsuzawa Yutaka, known for the principle of “vanishing of matter” and the practice of “meditative visualization” (kannen); The Play, a collective of “Happeners”; and the local collective GUN (Group Ultra Niigata). The innovative work of these artists included a visionary exhibition in Central Japan of “formless emissions” organized by Matsuzwa; the launching of a huge fiberglass egg—“an image of liberation”—from the southernmost tip of Japan’s main island by The Play; and gorgeous color field abstractions painted by GUN on accumulating snow on the riverbeds of the Shinano River. Pioneers in conceptualism, performance art, land art, mail art, and political art, these artists delved into the local and achieved global relevance. Making “connections” and finding “resonances” between these three practitioners and artists elsewhere, Tomii links their local practices to the global narrative and illuminates the fundamentally “similar yet dissimilar” characteristics of their work. In her reading, Japan becomes a paradigmatic site of world art history, on the periphery but asserting its place through hard-won international contemporaneity. Reiko Tomii is a New York-based scholar and curator who investigates post-1945 Japanese art in local and global contexts.

Innovative artists in 1960s Japan who made art in the “wilderness”—away from Tokyo, outside traditional norms, and with little institutional support— with global resonances. April 7 x 9, 328 pp. 18 color illus., 81 black & white illus. $36.95T/£25.95 cloth 978-0-262-03412-8

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

art

ON&BY Andy Warhol edited by Gilda Williams The impact of Andy Warhol on contemporary culture is incalculable. Painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, publisher, TV personality, socialite, diarist, graphic artist, collector, curator, illustrator, rock impresario, photographer, model, and author, he was a pioneer in virtually every medium in which he worked. From blotted-line advertising illustrations for I. Miller shoes in 1950s, to photography-based paintings of car wrecks or movie stars in the 1960s, to cult films that explored homoerotic and other sexually explicit subjects, to his reinvention of the celebrity magazine in the 1970s with Interview, Warhol’s work was both ahead of its time and eradefining. With dedicated Twitter feeds today that adapt his short epithets or “Warholisms” into 140-character snippets (“People are so fantastic. You can’t take a bad picture”), Warhol’s cultural relevance seems only to grow in the twenty-first century. Edited and introduced by art critic Gilda Williams, ON&BY Andy Warhol brings together writers—art critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates—who have examined the influence and legacy of Warhol’s life and work. Accompanying these texts are recent discoveries by Warhol senior archivist Matt Wrbican, interviews, and further writings by Warhol and his collaborators including selections from Blue Movie, Exposures, Popism, and Andy Warhol’s Party Book. Writings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself.

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) was, in the words of Lou Reed, “an astonishing person in every way.” Recognized as being among the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol lived and worked in New York City from 1949 until his death. He gained attention in the 1960s for his paintings of Campbell soup cans, silkscreen paintings of celebrities, and such innovative films as Blow Job. Gilda Williams is an art critic and London correspondent for Artforum. She teaches at Goldsmiths College (University of London) and Sotheby’s

March 5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 240 pp. $24.95T/£16.95 paper 978-0-262-52868-9 ON&BY series Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery, London Not for sale in the UK and Europe

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Institute of Art, London. Contributors Saul Anton, Callie Angell, Art & Language, Roland Barthes, Gregory Battcock, Bob Colacello, John Coplans, Douglas Crimp, Rainer Crone, Thomas Crow, Arthur C. Danto, Donna DeSalvo, Trevor Fairbrother, Hal Foster, Michael Fried, Gérald Gassiot-Talabot, Anthony E. Grudin, Dave Hickey, Fredric Jameson, Caroline A. Jones, Donald Judd, Stephen Koch, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lucy R. Lippard, Richard Meyer, Stuart Morgan, Barbara Rose, Robert Rosenblum, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Simon Watney, Gilda Williams, Reva Wolf, Mary Woronov

art

The Magazine edited by Gwen Allen The multiple platforms of the digital era have not diminished the role of the magazine for artists as an alternative medium and experimental space. Whether printed on paper or electronically generated, the artist’s magazine continues to be a place where new ideas and forms can be imagined as well as a significant site of artistic production. Intrinsically collaborative, including readers’ active engagement, the magazine is an inherently open form that generates constantly evolving relationships. It was integral to the emergence of art criticism in the Enlightenment period and to the development of artistic dialogues around notions of culture, politics, and the public from the modern era avant-gardes to the present. This collection contextualizes the current condition and potential of the artist’s magazine, surveying the art worlds it has created and then superseded; the commercial media forms it has critically appropriated, intervened in, or subverted; the alternative DIY cultures it has brought into being; and the expanded fields of cultural production, exchange, and distribution it continues to engender. In addition to surveying case studies of transformational magazines from the early 1960s onwards, Magazine includes a wide-ranging archive of key editorial statements, from eighteenth-century Weimar to twenty-first century Bangkok, Cape Town, and Delhi. Gwen Allen is Associate Professor of History of Art at San Francisco University. She is the author of Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art (MIT Press). Artists surveyed include Can Altay, Ei Arakawa, Julieta Aranda, Tania Bruguera, Maurizio Cattelan, Eduardo Costa, Dexter Sinister, Rimma Gerlovina, Valeriy Gerlovin, Robert Heinecken, John Holmstrom, John Knight, Silvia Kolbowski, Lee Lozano, Josephine Meckseper, Clemente Padin, Raymond Pettibon, Adrian Piper, Seth Price, Raqs Media Collective, Riot Grrrl, Martha Rosler, Sanaa Seif, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Scott Treleaven, Triple Canopy,

The artist’s magazine as a place where new ideas and forms can be imagined and created, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. March 5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 240 pp. $24.95T/£16.95 paper 978-0-262-52866-5

Anton Vidokle

Documents of Contemporary Art series

Writers include

Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery, London

Saul Anton, Stewart Brand, Jack Burnham, Johanna Burton, Thomas Crow, Edit DeAk, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jürgen Habermas, Martina Köppel-Yang, Antje Krause-Wahl,

Not for sale in the UK and Europe

Lucy Lippard, Caolan Madden, Valentina Parisi, Howardena Pindell, Georg Schöllhammer, Nancy Spector, Sally Stein, Reiko Tomii, Jud Yalkut, Vivian Ziherl

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

art

Queer edited by David J. Getsy

Key artists’ writings that have influenced and catalyzed contemporary queer artistic practice. March 5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 240 pp. $24.95T/£16.95 paper 978-0-262-52867-2 Documents of Contemporary Art series Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery, London Not for sale in the UK and Europe

Historically, “queer” was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, “queer” was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity. Rather, it offers a strategic undercutting of the stability of identity and of the dispensation of power that shadows the assignment of categories and taxonomies. Artists who identify their practices as queer today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships, relationships, loves, and communities. Rather than a book of queer theory for artists, this is a book of artists’ queer tactics and infectious concepts. By definition, there can be no singular “queer art.” Here, in the first Documents of Contemporary Art anthology to be centered on artists’ writings, numerous conversations about queer practice are brought together from diverse individual, social, and cultural contexts. Together these texts describe and examine the ways in which artists have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action, and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference. David J. Getsy is Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His books include Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, and Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (2010). Artists and writers include Nayland Blake, Gregg Bordowitz, Leigh Bowery, AA Bronson, A. K. Burns, Giuseppe Campuzano, Tee Corinne, Barbara DeGenevieve, Dyke Action Machine!, Elmgreen & Dragset, Nicole Eisenman, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Simon Fujiwara, Malik Gaines, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Sunil Gupta, Hahn Thi Pham, Harmony Hammond, Sharon Hayes, Hudson, Roberto Jacoby, Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, Mahmoud Khaled, Zoe Leonard, Lesbian Avengers, Catherine Lord, Ma Liuming, LTTR, Allyson Mitchell, Zanele Muholi, Carlos Motta, Ocaña, Hélio Oiticica, Catherine Opie, Marlon Riggs, Emily Roysdon, Prem Sahib, Assoto Saint, Tejal Shah, Amy Sillman, Jack Smith, AL Steiner, Wolfgang Tillmans, Toxic Titties, Danh Vo, David Wojnarowicz, Wu Tsang, Yan Xing, Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Akram Zaatari, Sergio Zevallos

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

art

Michael Asher edited by Jennifer King During a career that spanned more than forty years, from the late 1960s until his death in 2012, Michael Asher created site-specific installations and institutional interventions that examined the conditions of art’s production, display, and reception. At the Art Institute of Chicago, for example, he famously relocated a bronze replica of an eighteenth-century sculpture of George Washington from the museum’s entrance to an interior gallery, thereby highlighting the disjunction between the statue’s symbolic function as a public monument and its aesthetic origins as an artwork. Today, Asher is celebrated as one of the forerunners of institutional critique. Yet because of Asher’s situation-based method of working, and his resistance to making objects that could circulate in the art market, few of his works survive in physical form. What does survive is writing by scholars and critics about his diverse practice. The essays in this volume document projects that range from Asher’s environmental works and museum displacements to his research-based presentations and reflections on urban space. Jennifer King is Associate Curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Contributors Michael Asher, Sandy Ballatore, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Jennifer King, Miwon Kwon, Barbara Munger, Stephan Pascher, Birgit Pelzer, Anne Rorimer, Allan Sekula

Also available in this series

Essays and criticism that span Michael Asher’s career, documenting site-specific installations and institutional interventions. March 6 x 9, 200 pp. 60 illus. $19.95T/£13.95 paper 978-0-262-52879-5 $40.00S/£27.95 cloth 978-0-262-03430-2 October Files

$18.95T/£13.95 paper 978-0-262-52793-4

$18.95T/£13.95 paper 978-0-262-52711-8

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

ARt

Sturtevant Warhol marilyn Patricia Lee

An illustrated examination of a work—a Warhol that isn’t by Warhol—that embodies a shift in attitudes about artistic authorship and originality. march 6 x 8 1/2, 104 pp. 24 color illus. $16.00T/£9.95 paper 978-1-84638-163-8

Warhol Marilyn (1965) is not a work by Andy Warhol but by the artist Elaine Sturtevant (1930–2014). Throughout her career, Sturtevant (as she preferred to be called) remade and exhibited works by other contemporary artists, among them Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. For Warhol Marilyn, Sturtevant used one of Warhol’s own silkscreens from his series of Marilyn printed multiples. (When asked how he made his silkscreened work, Warhol famously answered, “I don’t know. Ask Elaine.”) In this book, Patricia Lee examines Warhol Marilyn as representing a shift in thinking about artistic authorship and originality, highlighting a decisive moment in the rethinking of the contemporary artwork. Lee describes the cognitive dissonance a viewer might feel on learning the identity of Warhol Marilyn’s author, and explains that mistaken identity is part of Sturtevant’s intention for the operation of the work. She discusses the ways that Sturtevant’s methodology went against the grain of a certain interpretation of modernism, and addresses the cultural significance of both Warhol and Monroe as celebrity figures. She considers Dorothy Podber’s shooting a bullet through a stack of Warhol’s Marilyns (thereafter known as The Shot Marilyns) at the Factory in 1964 and its possible influence on Sturtevant’s decision to remake the work. Lee writes that Sturtevant’s critical reception has been informed by some fictional forebears: the made-up artist Hank Herron (whose nonexistent work duplicating paintings by Frank Stella was reviewed by a fictional critic), and (suggested by Sturtevant herself) Pierre Menard, the title character of Jorge Luis Borges’s “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” who recreates a section of Cervantes’s masterpiece line by line. Patricia Lee is a writer, lecturer, and scholar of contemporary art.

One Work series distributed for Afterall Books

spRiNg 2016 | mitpRess.mit.edU

Also available in this series

$16.00T/£9.95 paper 978-1-84638-158-4

$16.00T/£9.95 paper 978-1-84638-150-8

ZONE BOOKS

architecture

Outlaw Territories Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency Felicity D. Scott In Outlaw Territories, Felicity Scott traces the relation of architecture and urbanism to human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and 1970s. Investigating a set of responses to the growing urban unrest in the developed and developing worlds, Scott revisits an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. She describes architecture’s response to the displacement of persons brought on by migration, urbanization, environmental catastrophe, and warfare, and she traces architecture’s relationship to the material, environmental, psychological, and geopolitical transformations brought on by postindustrial technologies and neoliberal capitalism after World War II. At the height of the U.S.-led war in Vietnam and Cambodia, with ongoing decolonization struggles in many parts of the world, architecture not only emerged as a target of political agitation because of its inherent normativity but also became heavily enmeshed with military, legal, and humanitarian apparatuses, participating in scientific and technological research dedicated to questions of international management and security. Once architecture became aligned with a global matrix of forces concerned with the environment, economic development, migration, genocide, and war, its role shifted at times toward providing strategic expertise for institutions born of neoliberal capitalism. Scott investigates this nexus and questions how and to what ends architecture and the environment came to be intimately connected to the expanded exercise of power within the shifting geopolitical frameworks at this time. Felicity D. Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she directs the PhD program in architecture and codirects the program in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. She is the author of Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism (MIT Press).

Revisiting an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. March 6 x 9, 544 pp. 104 illus. $39.95T/£27.95 cloth 978-1-935408-73-4 Distributed for Zone Books

“Scott gives us a way to think the politics of architecture as a new environmentality. Essential reading for anyone with activist stakes in the contemporary history of insurgent habitats and militarized space.” —Emily Apter, author of Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability

Also available Architecture or Techno-Utopia Politics after Modernism Felicity D. Scott 2010, 978-0-262-51406-4 $21.95T/£15.95 paper

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

ZONE BOOKS

history | music | biography

now in paper

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time Siegfried Kracauer translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher foreword by Gertrud Koch Siegfried Kracauer’s biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable work of social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and in English translation in 1938, the book uses the life and work of Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris. Offenbach’s immensely popular operettas have long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and escapism that pervaded Paris in the aftermath of 1848. But Kracauer insists that Offenbach’s productions must be understood as more than glittering distractions. The fantasy realms of such operettas as La Belle Hélène were as one with the unreality of Napoleon III’s imperial masquerade, but they also made a mockery of the pomp and pretense surrounding the apparatuses of power. At the same time, Offenbach’s dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian content that can be seen as an indictment of the fraudulence and corruption of the times. This edition includes Kracauer’s preface to the original German edition as well as a critical foreword by Gertrud Koch. A biography of composer Jacques Offenbach that is also a social and cultural history of Second Empire Paris. March 6 x 9, 424 pp. 28 illus. $24.95T/£17.95 paper 978-1-890951-31-3 cloth 2003 978-1-890951-30-6 Distributed for Zone Books

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

The works of Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) translated into English include Theory of Film, The Salaried Masses, The Mass Ornament, History, and From Caligari to Hitler.

pHiLOsOpHy | pOLiticAL tHeORy

State and Politics deleuze and guattari on marx Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc translated by Ames Hodges Often approached through their “micropolitics of desire,” the joint works of Deleuze and Guattari are rarely part of the discussion when classical and contemporary problems of political thought come under scrutiny. Yet if we follow the trajectory from Anti-Oedipus (1972) to A Thousand Plateaus, (1980), it becomes clear that these problems were redeveloped during a period of historical transition marked by the end of the wars of decolonization, the transformation of global capitalism, and by recombinations of the forces of collective resistance that were as deep as they were uncertain. In State and Politics, Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc measures how Deleuze and Guattari engage with the upheavals of their time by confronting their thought with its main interlocutor, Marxism; with its epistemological field (historical materialism); with its critical program (the critique of political economy); and with its political grammar (class struggle). Three new hypotheses emerge from these encounters: the hypothesis of the Urstaat, embodying an excess of sovereign violence over the State apparatus and over its political investments; the hypothesis of a power of the “war machine” that States can only ever appropriate partially, and to which they can be subordinated; and the hypothesis of an excess of “destructivism” in capitalist accumulation over its productive organization. These three excesses betray the haunting presence of the period between the wars in the political thought of Deleuze and Guattari, but they also allow Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas to communicate with contemporary thinkers. The reader discovers not only a new political theory but also the plurality of ways in which extreme violence—violence capable of destroying politics itself—can arise.

A detailed analysis of how deleuze and Guattari’s work engaged with the upheavals of their time. march 6 x 9, 240 pp.

Guillaume Silbertin-Blanc is a French philosopher, an Associate Professor at the

$18.95T/£13.95 paper 978-1-58435-176-4

University of Toulouse II le Mirail, and a member of the International Center for

Foreign Agents series

the Study of Contemporary French Philosophy (ENS Ulm).

distributed for Semiotext(e) Also available from Semiotext(e) Psychoanalysis and Transversality Texts and Interviews 1955–1971 Félix guattari 2015, 978-1-58435-127-6 $18.95t/£13.95 paper Two regimes of Madness Texts and Interviews 1975–1995 revised edition gilles deleuze 2008, 978-1-58435-062-0 $19.95t/£13.95 paper

mitpRess.mit.edU | spRiNg 2016

pOLiticAL tHeORy | cULtURAL stUdies

dividuum machinic capitalism and molecular Revolution Gerald raunig translated by Aileen derieg the animal of the molecular revolution will be neither mole nor snake, but a droneanimal-thing that is solid, liquid, and a gas. —from Dividuum

raunig develops a philosophy of dividuality as a way of addressing contemporary modes of production and forms of life. April 6 x 9, 200 pp.

As the philosophical, religious, and historical systems that have produced the “individual” (and its counterparts, society and community) over the years continue to break down, the age of “dividuality” is now upon us. The roots of the concept of the “dividuum” can be traced back to Latin philosophy, when Cicero used the term to translate the “divisible” in the writings of Epicurus and Plato; later, medieval scholars utilized the term in theological discussions on the unity of the trinity. Grounding himself in the writings of the medieval bishop Gilbert de Poitiers and his extensive commentaries on Boethius, Gerald Raunig charts a genealogy of the concept and develops a philosophy of dividuality as a way of addressing contemporary modes of production and forms of life. Through its components of dispersion, subsistence, and similarity, dividuality becomes a hidden principle of obedience and conformity, but it also brings with it the potential to realize disobedience and noncompliant con/dividualities. Raunig’s bad news is that dividuality is responsible for much of the intensified exploitation and enslavement taking place under contemporary machinic capitalism. Algorithms, derivatives, big data, and social media technology all contribute to the rampant expansion of divisive management strategies and desires for self-division. The good news, however, is that this same terrain of dividuality presents an opportunity for a new kind of resistance, one that can be realized in the form of con/division. Gerald raunig is a philosopher and art theorist. He works at the Zürich Uni-

$16.95T/£11.95 paper 978-1-58435-180-1

versity of the Arts and the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural

Foreign Agents series

the Austrian journal for radical democratic cultural politics, Kulturrisse. He is the

distributed for Semiotext(e)

Policies), Vienna. He is coeditor of the multilingual web journal Transversal and author of Art and Revolution, A Thousand Machines, and Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, all published by Semiotext[e].

Also available from Semiotext(e) A Thousand Machines gerald Raunig 2010, 978-1-58435-085-9 $12.95t/£9.95 paper Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity gerald Raunig 2013, 978-1-58435-116-0 $12.95t/£9.95 paper

spRiNg 2016 | mitpRess.mit.edU

LiteRAtURe

Uncertain reading collected essays robert Glück i read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible—relation itself—in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to “wake up” to the world, to recognize the world, to be convinced that the world exists, to take revenge on the world for not existing. —from Uncertain Reading

Since cofounding San Francisco’s influential New Narrative circle in 1979, Robert Glück has been one of America’s finest prose stylists of innovative fiction, bending narrative into the service of autobiography, politics, and gay writing. This collection brings together for the first time Glück’s nonfiction, a revelatory body of work that anchors his writing practice. Glück’s essays explore the ways that storytelling and selfhood are mutually embedded cultural forms, cohering a fractured social reality where generating narrative means generating identity means generating community. “I’d laugh at (make art from) any version of self,” Glück writes, “I write about these forms—that are myself—to dispense with them, to demonstrate how they disintegrate before the world, the body.” For any body—or text—to know itself, it must first see how it sees the world, and understand itself as writing. Glück’s essays affirm this radical narratorial precept in rich spirals of reading, self-reflection, anecdote, escapade, and “metatext.” These texts span the author’s career and his creative affinities—from lost manifestos theorizing the poetics of New Narrative; to encomia for literary and philosophic muses (Kathy Acker, the HOW(ever) poets, Frank O’Hara, Georges Bataille, and others); to narrative journalism, book reviews, criticism, and public talks. Many of the texts are culled from obscure little magazines and ephemeral online sources; others have never been published. As lucid as story, as lush as theory, and as irresistible as gossip, Glück’s essays are the quintessence of New Narrative theory in practice. Poet, fiction writer, editor, and New Narrative theorist robert Glück has served

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille. march 6 x 9, 392 pp. $18.95T/£13.95 paper 978-1-58435-175-7

as director of San Francisco State’s Poetry Center, codirector of the Small Press

Active Agents series

Traffic Literary Center, and editor for Lapis Press and the literary journal Nar-

distributed for Semiotext(e)

rativity. He lives in San Francisco and is a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

Also available from Semiotext(e) The Importance of Being Iceland Travel essays in Art eileen myles 2008, 978-1-58435-066-8 $17.95t/£12.95 paper When the Sick rule the World dodie Bellamy 2015, 978-1-58435-168-9 $17.95t/£12.95 paper

mitpRess.mit.edU | spRiNg 2016

FictiON

Surveys Natasha Stagg One day, i was not famous, the next day, i was almost famous and the temptation to go wide with that and reject my past was too great. When i was legit famous, it was hard to tell when the change had occurred. . . if i had been born famous, the moment i would have started engaging in social media, i would have seen this fame, not the rise of it. But first i saw the low numbers, and later, the high ones. —from Surveys

Wryly mirroring the classic, female coming-of-age narrative, Natasha Stagg’s debut traces a few months in the life of Colleen, a twenty-threeyear-old woman with almost no attachments or aspirations for her life. Working at an unsatisfying mall job in Tucson, Colleen sleepwalks through depressing office politics and tiresome one-night stands in a desultory way, becoming fully alive only at night when she’s online. Colleen attains ambiguous Internet stardom when she’s discovered by Jim, a semi-famous icon of masculinity and reclusiveness. When Colleen quits her job and moves to meet Jim in Los Angeles, she immediately falls in love and begins a new life of whirlwind parties and sponsored events. The pair’s relationship, launched online, makes them the Scott and Zelda of their generation, and they tour the country, cashing in on the buzz surrounding their romance. But as their fame expands, Colleen’s jealousy grows obsessive. A bored twenty-threeyear-old woman suddenly leaves her dull suburban job for L.A., becomes Internetfamous, and falls in love— Zelda to a semi-famous Scott. march 6 x 9, 200 pp. $15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-1-58435-178-8 Native Agents series distributed for Semiotext(e) Also available from Semiotext(e) Nicola, Milan Lodovico pignatti morano 2014, 978-1-58435-128-3 $14.95t/£10.95 paper

spRiNg 2016 | mitpRess.mit.edU

Natasha Stagg is a senior editor at the fashion magazines V and VMAN. She has received a Hopwood Award for nonfiction and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship and the James H. Robertson Award for fiction. Her essays have appeared in DIS magazine, Dazed, Kaleidoscope, Riot of Perfume, Sex, The Brooklyn Rail, and Bomb. She lives in Brooklyn.

FictiON

Atlantic Island Tony duvert translated by purdey Lord Kreiden and michael thomas taren Tony Duvert’s novel Atlantic Island (originally published in French in 1979) takes place in the soul-crushing suburbs of a remote island off the coast of France. It is told through the shifting perspectives of a group of pubescent and prepubescent boys, ages seven to fourteen, who gather together at night in secret to carry out a series of burglaries throughout their neighborhood. The boys vandalize living rooms and kitchens and make off with, for the most part, petty objects of no value. Their exploits leave the adult community perplexed and outraged, especially when a death occurs and the stakes grow more serious. Duvert’s portrayal of adult life on this Atlantic Island is savage to the point of satire, but the boys and their thieving and sexuality are explored with sympathy. A novel on the loneliness of childhood and the solitude induced by geographical space, it is also an empathetic and generous homage to youth, a crime novel without suspense, and an unsettling fairytale for adults. Atlantic Island today is a forgotten gem of French literature: Duvert’s own version of The Lord of the Flies, it is attentive to details and precise in its depiction of French mores and language. An indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community, it is also a love letter to childhood, incorporating the heroic vistas in which a child needs only a fertile imagination to become the secret hero of his or her own life. Tony duvert (1945–2008) was the author of fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction. His fifth novel, Strange Landscape, won the prestigious Prix Médicis in 1973. Other books translated into English include the novels When Jonathan Died and Diary of an Innocent as well as Good Sex Illustrated, the last two both available from Semiotext(e).

A forgotten gem of French literature, duvert’s version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community. may 6 x 9, 320 pp. $17.95T/£12.95 paper 978-1-58435-177-1 Native Agents series distributed for Semiotext(e) Also available from Semiotext(e) Good Sex Illustrated tony duvert 2007, 978-1-58435-043-9 $14.95t/£10.95 paper diary of an Innocent tony duvert 2010, 978-1-58435-077-4 $17.95t/£12.95 paper

mitpRess.mit.edU | spRiNg 2016

$17.95T/£12.95 paper 978-1-58435-168-9

$17.95T/£12.95 paper 978-1-58435-114-6

$34.95T/£24.95 cloth 978-1-58435-104-7

$39.95T/£27.95 cloth 978-1-58435-160-3

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-1-58435-165-8

$17.95T/£12.95 paper 978-1-58435-171-9

$13.95T/£9.95 paper 978-1-58435-164-1

$13.95T/£9.95 paper 978-1-58435-159-7

$13.95T/£9.95 paper 978-1-58435-167-2

$13.95T/£9.95 paper 978-1-58435-163-4

$13.95T/£9.95 paper 978-1-58435-112-2

$12.95T/£8.95 paper 978-1-58435-116-0

spRiNg 2016 | mitpRess.mit.edU

marketing @ the mit press

The past year of MARKETING AT THE MIT PRESS MIT Press books received more than 1,285 reviews, features, mentions, on and off the book page coverage, and interviews. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Observer, The Globe and Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Slate, The Huffington Post, Bookforum, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, The Lancet, Orion, Audubon, Science, Nature, New Scientist, Smithsonian, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, Mother Jones, Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, BoingBoing, Gizmodo, Wired, Fast Company, Times Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Choice, ArtNews, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, The Architect's Newspaper, Architectural Record, ICON, Assembly MIT Press journals received over 200 reviews, features, mentions, and interviews. The New York Times, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, The Observer, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Salon, The Huffington Post, Slate, The New Yorker, Digg, Reddit, Spin, Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, Wired, Foreign Policy, New Scientist, Quartz, Nature, Mashable, The Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Bloomberg Businessweek, Freakonomics,Education Week, Times Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, Artforum, Illustration Age MIT Press authors are constantly speaking to a global audience about the subjects of our books. They were involved in more than 130 events where books were sold in over 20 US states and 9 countries throughout the world. conferences, bookstores, museums, libraries, universities, Buddhist retreats, art galleries, foreign affairs clubs, design studios, businesses, government offices.

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

marketing @ the mit press

MIT Press authors were involved in 86 broadcast interviews. The Colbert Report, CNN, C-Span Al Jazeera America, MSNBC Chicago local news, Denver local news, NPR, PRI, BBC radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, New Zealand Public Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation MIT Press books received 21 awards during this time and journals received 2 awards. Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science given by Phi Beta Kappa, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Sally Hacker Prize, Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award, PSP Book Award in Popular Science, Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award, Eugene S. Ferguson Prize, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, PSP Prose Award, Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics, the medal of chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. MIT Press books received 475 endorsements from prominent figures. Bill Gates, Ralph Nader, Junot DĂaz, Steven Pinker, Don Norman, Bruce Sterling, Thomas Piketty, Bill McKibben, T. Berry Brazelton, Microsoft, Boeing, eBay, Bloomberg, Edmunds.com, Bank of America Merrill Lynch We signed 188 agreements for foreign editions involving 109 foreign publishers in various languages. German, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Croatian, French, Chinese simplified characters, Macedonia, Arabic, Czech, Russian, Turkish, Albanian, Portuguese, Serbian MIT Press Twitter followers now number more than 42,700. We have more than 85,000 Facebook fans living all over the world.

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

information science

academic Trade

The New Librarianship Field Guide R. David Lankes This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities—librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds librarians of their mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments, resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries in a new way. The librarians of Ferguson, Missouri, famously became positive change agents in August 2014 when they opened library doors when schools were closed because of civil unrest after the shooting of an unarmed teen by police. Working with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities—students, faculty, scholars, law firms—in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship. In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers “Frequently Argued Questions” about the new librarianship. R. David Lankes is Professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse. He is the author of The Atlas of New Librarianship (MIT Press).

How librarians can be radical positive change agents in their communities, dedicated to learning and making a difference. June 6 x 9, 264 pp. 4 illus. $22.00S/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-52908-2 Also available The Atlas of New Librarianship R. David Lankes 2011, 978-0-262-01509-7 $62.00S/£42.95 cloth

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

environment | history

The Arid Lands History, Power, Knowledge Diana K. Davis

An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. April 5 3/8 x 8, 296 pp. 8 color plates, 24 black & white illus. $32.00S/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03452-4 History for a Sustainable Future series

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book, Diana Davis argues that estimates of desertification have been significantly exaggerated and that deserts and drylands—which constitute about 41% of the earth’s landmass—are actually resilient and biodiverse environments in which a great many indigenous people have long lived sustainably. Meanwhile, contemporary arid lands development programs and antidesertification efforts have met with little success. As Davis explains, these environments are not governed by the equilibrium ecological dynamics that apply in most other regions. Davis shows that our notion of the arid lands as wastelands derives largely from politically motivated Anglo-European colonial assumptions that these regions had been laid waste by “traditional” uses of the land. Unfortunately, such assumptions still frequently inform policy. Drawing on political ecology and environmental history, Davis traces changes in our understanding of deserts, from the benign views of the classical era to Christian associations of the desert with sinful activities to later (neo) colonial assumptions of destruction. She further explains how our thinking about deserts is problematically related to our conceptions of forests and desiccation. Davis concludes that a new understanding of the arid lands as healthy, natural, but variable ecosystems that do not necessarily need improvement or development will facilitate a more sustainable future for the world’s magnificent drylands. Diana K. Davis, a geographer and veterinarian, is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of the award-winning Resurrecting the Granary of Rome.

music | technology

Digital Signatures The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen and Anne Danielsen Is digital production killing the soul of music? Is Auto-Tune the nadir of creative expression? Digital technology has changed not only how music is produced, distributed, and consumed but also—equally important but not often considered—how music sounds. In this book, Ragnhild BrøvigHanssen and Anne Danielsen examine the impact of digitization on the aesthetics of popular music. They investigate sonically distinctive “digital signatures”—musical moments when the use of digital technology is revealed to the listener. The particular signatures of digital mediation they examine include digital reverb and delay, MIDI and sampling, digital silence, the virtual cut-and-paste tool, digital glitches, microrhythmic manipulation, and autotuning—all of which they analyze in specific works by popular artists. Combining technical and historical knowledge of music production with musical analyses, aesthetic interpretations, and theoretical discussions, Brøvig-Hanssen and Danielsen offer unique insights into how digitization has changed the sound of popular music and the listener’s experience of it. For example, they show how digital reverb and delay have allowed experimentation with spatiality by analyzing Kate Bush’s “Get Out of My House”; they examine the contrast between digital silence and the low-tech noises of tape hiss or vinyl crackle in Portishead’s “Stranger”; and they describe the development of Auto-Tune—at first a tool for pitch correction—into an artistic effect, citing work by various hip-hop artists, Bon Iver, and Lady Gaga. Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen is Associate Professor in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. Anne Danielsen is Professor in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo.

How sonically distinctive digital “signatures”—including reverb, glitches, and autotuning—affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others. March 6 x 9, 224 pp. 20 illus. $27.00S/£18.95 cloth 978-0-262-03414-2

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

history of science | weather

Inventing Atmospheric Science Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology James Rodger Fleming

How scientists used transformative new technologies to understand the complexities of weather and the atmosphere, told through the intertwined careers of three key figures. February 6 x 9, 304 pp. 35 illus. $31.00S/£21.95 cloth 978-0-262-03394-7

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

“The goal of meteorology is to portray everything atmospheric, everywhere, always,” declared John Bellamy and Harry Wexler in 1960, soon after the successful launch of TIROS 1, the first weather satellite. Throughout the twentieth century, meteorological researchers have had global ambitions, incorporating technological advances into their scientific study as they worked to link theory with practice. Wireless telegraphy, radio, aviation, nuclear tracers, rockets, digital computers, and Earth-orbiting satellites opened up entirely new research horizons for meteorologists. In this book, James Fleming charts the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of atmospheric science through the lives and careers of three key figures: Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862–1951), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898–1957), and Harry Wexler (1911–1962). In the early twentieth century, Bjerknes worked to put meteorology on solid observational and theoretical foundations. His younger colleague, the innovative and influential Rossby, built the first graduate program in meteorology (at MIT), trained aviation cadets during World War II, and was a pioneer in numerical weather prediction and atmospheric chemistry. Wexler, one of Rossby’s best students, became head of research at the U.S. Weather Bureau, where he developed new technologies from radar and rockets to computers and satellites, conducted research on the Antarctic ice sheet, and established carbon dioxide measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. He was also the first meteorologist to fly into a hurricane—an experience he chose never to repeat. Fleming maps both the ambitions of an evolving field and the constraints that checked them—war, bureaucracy, economic downturns, and, most important, the ultimate realization (prompted by the formulation of chaos theory in the 1960s by Edward Lorenz) that perfectly accurate measurements and forecasts would never be possible. James Rodger Fleming is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College.

pHiLOsOpHy

Inborn Knowledge the mystery Within Colin McGinn In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate—that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired. McGinn considers the particular case of sensible qualities—ideas of color, shape, taste, and so on. He argues that these, which he once regarded as the strongest case for the empiricist position, are in fact not well explained by the empiricist account that they derive from interactions with external objects. Rather, he contends, ideas of sensible qualities offer the strongest case for the nativist position—that a large range of our knowledge is inborn, not acquired through the senses. Yet, McGinn cautions, how this can be is deeply problematic; we have no good theories about how innate knowledge is possible. Innate knowledge is a mystery, though a fact. McGinn describes the traditional debate between empiricism and nativism; offers an array of arguments against empiricism; constructs an argument in favor of nativism; and considers the philosophical consequences of adopting the nativist position, discussing perception, the mind–body problem, the unconscious, metaphysics, and epistemology. Colin McGinn has taught philosophy at institutions of higher learning including University College London, Rutgers University, and Oxford University. He is the author of The Character of Mind, Consciousness and Its Objects, The Meaning of Disgust, Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained (MIT Press), Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity (MIT Press), and other books.

Also available

An argument that nativism is true and important but mysterious, examining the particular case of ideas of sensible qualities. march 5 3/8 x 8, 152 pp. $32.00S/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-02939-1

$24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-02932-2

$35.00S/£29.95 cloth 978-0-262-02845-5

mitpRess.mit.edU | spRiNg 2016

Internet studies | Cold War studies

How Not to Network a Nation The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet Benjamin Peters

How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. April 6 x 9, 288 pp. 23 illus. $38.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03418-0 Information Policy series

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among selfinterested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today’s networked world. Benjamin Peters is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

cognitive science | linguistics

Creating Language Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater foreword by Peter W. Culicover Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment by moment, in the generation and understanding of individual utterances; year by year, as new language learners acquire language skills; and generation by generation, as languages change, split, and fuse through the processes of cultural evolution. Christiansen and Chater propose a revolutionary new framework for understanding the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, offering an integrated theory of how language creation is intertwined across these multiple timescales. Christiansen and Chater argue that mainstream generative approaches to language do not provide compelling accounts of language evolution, acquisition, and processing. Their own account draws on important developments from across the language sciences, including statistical natural language processing, learnability theory, computational modeling, and psycholinguistic experiments with children and adults. Christiansen and Chater also consider some of the major implications of their theoretical approach for our understanding of how language works, offering alternative accounts of specific aspects of language, including the structure of the vocabulary, the importance of experience in language processing, and the nature of recursive linguistic structure. Morten H. Christiansen is Professor of Psychology and Codirector of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University. Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. April 6 x 9, 344 pp. 18 illus. $40.00S/ÂŁ27.95 cloth 978-0-262-03431-9

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

new media

Updating to Remain the Same Habitual New Media Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving. June 6 x 9, 256 pp. 44 illus. $32.00S/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03449-4

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring out what will spread and who will spread it the fastest. But what do we miss in this constant push to the future? In Updating to Remain the Same, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun suggests another approach, arguing that our media matter most when they seem not to matter at all—when they have moved from “new” to habitual. Smart phones, for example, no longer amaze, but they increasingly structure and monitor our lives. Through habits, Chun says, new media become embedded in our lives—indeed, we become our machines: we stream, update, capture, upload, link, save, trash, and troll. Chun links habits to the rise of networks as the defining concept of our era. Networks have been central to the emergence of neoliberalism, replacing “society” with groupings of individuals and connectable “YOUS.” (For isn’t “new media” actually “NYOU media”?) Habit is central to the inversion of privacy and publicity that drives neoliberalism and networks. Why do we view our networked devices as “personal” when they are so chatty and promiscuous? What would happen, Chun asks, if, rather than pushing for privacy that is no privacy, we demanded public rights—the right to be exposed, to take risks and to be in public and not be attacked? Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, who has studied both systems design and English literature, is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, both published by the MIT Press.

game studies | Asian studies

Atari to Zelda Japan’s Videogames in Global Contexts Mia Consalvo In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn’t recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting games to play. But since then, fans, media, and the games industry have thought further about the “Japaneseness” of particular games. Game developers try to decide whether a game’s Japaneseness is a selling point or stumbling block; critics try to determine what elements in a game express its Japaneseness—cultural motifs or technical markers. Games were “localized,” subjected to sociocultural and technical tinkering. In this book, Mia Consalvo looks at what happens when Japanese games travel outside Japan, and how they are played, thought about, and transformed by individuals, companies, and groups in the West. Consalvo begins with players, first exploring North American players’ interest in Japanese games (and Japanese culture in general) and then investigating players’ DIY localization of games, in the form of ROM hacking and fan translating. She analyzes several Japanese games released in North America and looks in detail at the Japanese game company Square Enix. She examines indie and corporate localization work, and the rise of the professional culture broker. Finally, she compares different approaches to Japaneseness in games sold in the West and considers how Japanese games have influenced Western games developers. Her account reveals surprising cross-cultural interactions between Japanese games and Western game developers and players, between Japaneseness and the market. Mia Consalvo is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames (MIT Press) and Players and Their Pets: Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset.

The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West, from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of “Japaneseness.” May 6 x 9, 280 pp. 34 illus. $32.00S/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03439-5

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

science

Ancient Origins of Consciousness How the Brain Created Experience Todd E. Feinberg and Jon M. Mallatt

How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious. April 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 352 pp. 55 illus. $35.00S/£24.95 cloth 978-0-262-03433-3

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent scientific findings to answer these questions—and to tackle the most fundamental question about the nature of consciousness: how does the material brain create subjective experience? After assembling a list of the biological and neurobiological features that seem responsible for consciousness, and considering the fossil record of evolution, Feinberg and Mallatt argue that consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed. About 520 to 560 million years ago, they explain, the great “Cambrian explosion” of animal diversity produced the first complex brains, which were accompanied by the first appearance of consciousness; simple reflexive behaviors evolved into a unified inner world of subjective experiences. From this they deduce that all vertebrates are and have always been conscious—not just humans and other mammals, but also every fish, reptile, amphibian, and bird. Considering invertebrates, they find that arthropods (including insects and probably crustaceans) and cephalopods (including the octopus) meet many of the criteria for consciousness. The obvious and conventional wisdom–shattering implication is that consciousness evolved simultaneously but independently in the first vertebrates and possibly arthropods more than half a billion years ago. Combining evolutionary, neurobiological, and philosophical approaches allows Feinberg and Mallatt to offer an original solution to the “hard problem” of consciousness. Todd E. Feinberg is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. Jon M. Mallatt is Associate Professor of Biology and Medical Sciences at Washington State University and the University of Washington.

cultural studies | music | art

Music and the Myth of Wholeness Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm Tim Hodgkinson In this book, Tim Hodgkinson proposes a theory of aesthetics and music grounded in the boundary between nature and culture within the human being. His analysis discards the conventional idea of the human being as an integrated whole in favor of a rich and complex field in which incompatible kinds of information—biological and cultural—collide. It is only when we acknowledge the clash of body and language within human identity that we can understand how art brings forth the special form of subjectivity potentially present in aesthetic experiences. As a young musician, Hodgkinson realized that music was, in some mysterious way, “of itself ”—not isolated from life, but not entirely continuous with it, either. Drawing on his experiences as a musician, composer, and anthropologist, Hodgkinson shows how when we listen to music a new subjectivity comes to life in ourselves. The normal mode of agency is suspended, and the subjectivity inscribed in the music comes toward us as a formative “other” to engage with. But this is not our reproduction of the composer’s own subjectivation; when we perform our listening of the music, we are sharing the formative risks taken by its maker. To examine this in practice, Hodgkinson looks at the work of three composers who have each claimed to stimulate a new way of listening: Pierre Schaeffer, John Cage, and Helmut Lachenmann. Tim Hodgkinson is a composer, musician, and writer. In 1968, he cofounded

A new theory of aesthetics and music, grounded in the collision between language and the body.

(with Fred Frith) the politically and musically radical group Henry Cow. His compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals around the world.

March 6 x 9, 264 pp. $32.00S/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03406-7

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

economics | finance

Connectedness and Contagion Protecting the Financial System from Panics Hal S. Scott

An argument that contagion is the most significant risk facing the financial system and that Dodd–Frank has reduced the government’s ability to respond effectively. July 6 x 9, 432 pp. 8 illlus. $38.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03437-1

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

The Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd–Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was the major problem in that crisis—that is, that financial institutions were overexposed to one another, resulting in a possible chain reaction of failures. In this book, Hal Scott argues that it is not connectedness but contagion that is the most significant element of systemic risk facing the financial system. Contagion is an indiscriminate run by shortterm creditors of financial institutions that can render otherwise solvent institutions insolvent. It poses a serious risk because, as Scott explains, our financial system still depends on approximately $7.4 to $8.2 trillion of runnable and uninsured short-term liabilities, 60 percent of which are held by nonbanks. Scott argues that efforts by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Treasury to stop the contagion that exploded after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers lessened the economic damage. And yet Congress, spurred by the public’s aversion to bailouts, has dramatically weakened the power of the government to respond to contagion, including limitations on the Fed’s powers as a lender of last resort. Offering uniquely detailed forensic analyses of the Lehman Brothers and AIG failures, and suggesting alternative regulatory approaches, Scott makes the case that we need to restore and strengthen our weapons for fighting contagion. Hal S. Scott is Nomura Professor and Director of the Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS) at Harvard Law School. He is Director of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a research organization.

art | new media

New Tendencies Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961–1978) Armin Medosch New Tendencies, a nonaligned modernist art movement, emerged in the early 1960s in the former Yugoslavia, a nonaligned country. It represented a new sensibility, rejecting both Abstract Expressionism and socialist realism in an attempt to formulate an art adequate to the age of advanced mass production. In this book, Armin Medosch examines the development of New Tendencies as a major international art movement in the context of social, political, and technological history. Doing so, he traces concurrent paradigm shifts: the change from Fordism (the political economy of mass production and consumption) to the information society, and the change from postwar modernism to dematerialized postmodern art practices. Medosch explains that New Tendencies, rather than opposing the forces of technology as most artists and intellectuals of the time did, imagined the rapid advance of technology to be a springboard into a future beyond alienation and oppression. Works by New Tendencies cast the viewer as coproducer, abolishing the idea of artist as creative genius and replacing it with the notion of the visual researcher. In 1968 and 1969, the group actively turned to the computer as a medium of visual research, anticipating new media and digital art. Medosch discusses modernization in then-Yugoslavia and other nations on the periphery; looks in detail at New Tendencies’ five major exhibitions in Zagreb (the capital of Croatia); and considers such topics as the group’s relation to science, the changing relationship of manual and intellectual labor, New Tendencies in the international art market, their engagement with computer art, and the group’s eventual eclipse by other “new art practices” including conceptualism, land art, and arte povera. Numerous illustrations document New Tendencies’ works and exhibitions. Armin Medosch is a Vienna-based artist, writer, and curator.

An account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key aspects of information aesthetics. June 7 x 9, 360 pp. 71 illus. $43.00S/£29.95 cloth 978-0-262-03416-6 A Leonardo Book

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

professional

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

science, technolog y, and society

science, technolog y, and society | organizational research

Quantified

Shifting Practices

Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life

Reflections on Technology, Practice, and Innovation

edited by Dawn Nafus

Giovan Francesco Lanzara

Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and What is at stake socially, microbiomes, and turn them culturally, politically, and into electronic data. Is this economically when we phenomenon empowering, routinely use technology or a new form of social conto gather information trol? Who volunteers to enuabout our bodies and merate bodily experiences, environments? and who is forced to do so? Who interprets the resulting data? How does all this affect the relationship between medical practice and self care, between scientific and lay knowledge? Quantified examines these and other issues that arise when biosensing technologies become part of everyday life. The book offers a range of perspectives, with views from the social sciences, cultural studies, journalism, industry, and the nonprofit world. The contributors consider data, personhood, and the urge to self-quantify; legal, commercial, and medical issues, including privacy, the outsourcing of medical advice, and self-tracking as a “paraclinical” practice; and technical concerns, including interoperability, sociotechnical calibration, alternative views of data, and new space for design.

What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexHow disruptions and pected event, or change, or discontinuities caused by technological innovation crethe introduction of new ates a discontinuity; organitechnologies often reveal zations and individuals must aspects of practice not reframe taken-for-granted previously observed. assumptions and practices and reposition themselves. To study innovation as a phenomenon, then, we must search for situations of discontinuity and rupture and explore them in depth. In Shifting Practices, Giovan Francesco Lanzara does just that, and discovers that disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed. After discussing methodological and research issues, Lanzara presents two in-depth studies focusing on processes of design and innovation in two different practice settings: music education and criminal justice. In the first, he works with the music department of a major American university to develop Music LOGO, a computer system that allows students to explore musical structures with simple, composition-like exercises and experiments. In the second, he works with the Italian court system in the design and use of video technology for criminal trials. In both cases, drawing on anecdotes and examples as well as theory and analysis, he traces the new systems from design through implementation and adoption. Finally, Lanzara considers the researcher’s role, and the relationship—encompassing empathy, vulnerability, and temporality—between the reflective researcher and actors in the practice setting.

Dawn Nafus is Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs and the coauthor (with Gina Neff) of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge volume The Quantified Self. Contributors Marc Böhlen, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sophie Day, Anna de Paula Hanika, Deborah Estrin, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Dana Greenfield, Judith Gregory, Mette Kragh-Furbo, Celia Lury, Adrian Mackenzie, Rajiv Mehta, Maggie Mort, Dawn Nafus, Gina Neff, Helen Nissenbaum, Heather Patterson,

Giovan Francesco Lanzara is Professor of Organization Studies

Celia Roberts, Jamie Sherman, Alex Taylor, Gary Wolf

in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.

March | 6 x 9, 248 pp. | 13 illus. $27.00S/£18.95 paper 978-0-262-52875-7 $54.00S/£37.95 cloth 978-0-262-03417-3

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

May | 7 x 9, 280 pp. | 6 illus. $39.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03445-6 Acting with Technology series

COMPUTER SCIENCE

computer science | infor mation science

computer science

Security Requirements Engineering

Java Precisely

Designing Secure Socio-Technical Systems

Peter Sestoft

Fabiano Dalpiaz, Elda Paja, and Paolo Giorgini Security requirements engineering is especially challenging because designers must consider not just the software under design but also interactions A novel, model-driven among people, organizations, approach to security hardware, and software. requirements engineering Taking this broader perspecthat focuses on sociotive means designing a secure technical systems socio-technical system rather rather than merely than a merely technical technical systems. system. This book presents a novel, model-driven approach to designing secure socio-technical systems. It introduces the Socio-Technical Modeling Language (STS-ML) and presents a freely available software tool, STS-Tool, that supports this design approach through graphical modeling, automated reasoning capabilities to verify the models constructed, and the automatic derivation of security requirements documents. After an introduction to security requirements engineering and an overview of computer and information security, the book presents the STS-ML modeling language, introducing the modeling concepts used, explaining how to use STS-ML within the STS method for security requirements, and providing guidelines for the creation of models. The book then puts the STS approach into practice, introducing the STS-Tool and presenting two case studies from industry: an online collaborative platform and an e-Government system. Finally, the book considers other methods that can be used in conjunction with the STS method or that constitute an alternative to it. The book is suitable for course use or as a reference for practitioners. Exercises, review questions, and problems appear at the end of each chapter.

Third Edition

The third edition of Java Precisely provides a concise description of the Java programming language, version 8.0. It offers a quick reference for the An updated, concise reader who has already reference for the Java learned (or is learning) Java programming language, from a standard textbook version 8.0, and essential and who wants to know the parts of its class languages, language in more detail. The offering more detail than book presents the entire Java a standard textbook. programming language and essential parts of the class libraries: the collection classes, the input-output classes, the stream libraries and Java 8’s facilities for parallel programming, and the functional interfaces used for that. Though written informally, the book describes the language in detail and offers many examples. For clarity, most of the general rules appear on left-hand pages with the relevant examples directly opposite on the right-hand pages. All examples are fragments of legal Java programs. The complete ready-torun example programs are available on the book’s website. This third edition adds material about functional parallel processing of arrays; default and static methods on interfaces; a brief description of the memory model and visibility across concurrent threads; lambda expressions, method reference expressions, and the related functional interfaces; and stream processing, including parallel programming and collectors. Peter Sestoft is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Software and Systems Section at the IT University of Copenhagen. April | 8 x 9, 216 pp. | 9 illus. $31.00S/£21.95 paper 978-0-262-52907-5

Fabiano Dalpiaz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Elda Paja is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Paolo Giorgini is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy. March | 7 x 9, 232 pp. $51.00X/£35.95 cloth 978-0-262-03421-0 Information Systems series mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

ENGINEERING

engineering

electrical engineering | computer science

Applied State Estimation and Association

Effective Coding with VHDL

Chaw-Bing Chang and Keh-Ping Dunn

Ricardo Jasinski

Applied state estimation and association is an important area for practicing engineers in aerospace, electronics, and defense industries, used in such tasks A rigorous introduction as signal processing, tracking, to the theory and and navigation. This book applications of state offers a rigorous introduction estimation and associato both theory and applition, an important area cation of state estimation in aerospace, electronics, and association. It takes a and defense industries. unified approach to problem formulation and solution development that helps students and junior engineers build a sound theoretical foundation for their work and develop skills and tools for practical applications. Chapters 1 through 6 focus on solving the problem of estimation with a single sensor observing a single object, and cover such topics as parameter estimation, state estimation for linear and nonlinear systems, and multiple model estimation algorithms. Chapters 7 through 10 expand the discussion to consider multiple sensors and multiple objects. The book can be used in a first-year graduate course in control or system engineering or as a reference for professionals. Each chapter ends with problems that will help readers to develop derivation skills that can be applied to new problems and to build computer models that offer a useful set of tools for problem solving. Readers must be familiar with state-variable representation of systems and basic probability theory including random and stochastic processes.

This book addresses an often-neglected aspect of the creation of VHDL designs. A VHDL description is also source code, and VHDL designers can A guide to applying use the best practices of softsoftware design principles ware development to write and coding practices to high-quality code and to VHDL to improve the organize it in a design. This readability, maintainability, book presents this unique and quality of VHDL code. set of skills, teaching VHDL designers of all experience levels how to apply the best design principles and coding practices from the software world to the world of hardware. The concepts introduced here will help readers write code that is easier to understand and more likely to be correct, with improved readability, maintainability, and overall quality. After a brief review of VHDL, the book presents fundamental design principles for writing code, discussing such topics as design, quality, architecture, modularity, abstraction, and hierarchy. Building on these concepts, the book then introduces and provides recommendations for each basic element of VHDL code, including statements, design units, types, data objects, and subprograms. The book covers naming data objects and functions, commenting the source code, and visually presenting the code on the screen. All recommendations are supported by detailed rationales. Finally, the book explores two uses of VHDL: synthesis and testbenches. It examines the key characteristics of code intended for synthesis (distinguishing it from code meant for simulation) and then demonstrates the design and implementation of testbenches with a series of examples that verify different kinds of models, including combinational, sequential, and FSM code. Examples from the book are also available on a companion website, enabling the reader to experiment with the complete source code.

Chaw-Bing Chang is a Senior Staff Member of the BMDS (Ballistic Missile Defense System) Integration Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Keh-Ping Dunn is a Senior Staff Member of the BMDS Integration Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Chang and Dunn each have forty years of experience in applying estimation and association techniques. May | 7 x 9, 448 pp. | 42 color illus., 66 black & white illus. $91.00X/ÂŁ62.95 cloth 978-0-262-03400-5 MIT Lincoln Laboratory Series

ENGINEERING | COMPUTER SCIENCE

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Principles and Best Practice

Ricardo Jasinski is Founder and Lead Developer at Solvis Ltd. June | 7 x 9, 592 pp. | 137 illus. $53.00S/ÂŁ36.95 cloth 978-0-262-03422-7

COMPUTER SCIENCE

COMPUTING

computer science

computing | social science

Programming Models for Parallel Computing

A Gentle Introduction to Effective Computing in Quantitative Research

edited by Pavan Balaji With the coming of the parallel computing era, computer scientists have turned their attention to designing programming models that are suited for An overview of the most high-performance parallel prominent contemporary computing and supercomparallel processing puting systems. Programprogramming models, ming parallel systems is written in a unique complicated by the fact that tutorial style. multiple processing units are simultaneously computing and moving data. This book offers an overview of some of the most prominent parallel programming models used in highperformance computing and supercomputing systems today. The chapters describe the programming models in a unique tutorial style rather than using the formal approach taken in the research literature. The aim is to cover a wide range of parallel programming models, enabling the reader to understand what each has to offer. The book begins with a description of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), the most common parallel programming model for distributed memory computing. It goes on to cover one-sided communication models, ranging from low-level runtime libraries (GASNet, OpenSHMEM) to high-level programming models (UPC, GA, Chapel); task-oriented programming models (Charm++, ADLB, Scioto, Swift, CnC) that allow users to describe their computation and data units as tasks so that the runtime system can manage computation and data movement as necessary; and parallel programming models intended for on-node parallelism in the context of multicore architecture or attached accelerators (OpenMP, Cilk Plus, TBB, CUDA, OpenCL).

What Every Research Assistant Should Know Harry J. Paarsch and Konstantin Golyaev This book offers a practical guide to the computational methods at the heart of most modern quantitative research. It will be essential readA practical guide to ing for research assistants using modern software needing hands-on experieffectively in quantitative ence; students entering PhD research in the social programs in business, ecoand natural sciences. nomics, and other social or natural sciences; and those seeking quantitative jobs in industry. No background in computer science is assumed; a learner need only have a computer with access to the Internet. Using the example as its principal pedagogical device, the book offers tried-and-true prototypes that illustrate many important computational tasks required in quantitative research. The best way to use the book is to read it at the computer keyboard and learn by doing. The book begins by introducing basic skills: how to use the operating system, how to organize data, and how to complete simple programming tasks. For its demonstrations, the book uses a UNIX-based operating system and a set of free software tools: the scripting language Python for programming tasks; the database management system SQLite; and the freely available R for statistical computing and graphics. The book goes on to describe particular tasks: analyzing data, implementing commonly used numerical and simulation methods, and creating extensions to Python to reduce cycle time. Finally, the book describes the use of LaTeX, a document markup language and preparation system.

Pavan Balaji holds appointments as Computer Scientist and Group Lead at Argonne National Laboratory, Institute Fellow of the North-

Harry J. Paarsch held the position of Professor of Economics and

western-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering at Northwest-

Robert Jensen Research Fellow in the Henry B. Tippie College of

ern University, and Research Fellow at the Computation Institute at

Business at the University of Iowa and subsequently Chair in

the University of Chicago.

Economics at the University of Melbourne. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as an applied economist and data scientist for Amazon.com.

January | 8 x 9, 488 pp. | 90 illus. $59.00S/ÂŁ40.95 paper 978-0-262-52881-8 Scientific and Engineering Computation series

Konstantin Golyaev is an applied economist and data scientist who lives and works in Seattle. June | 7 x 9, 840 pp. | 76 illus. $49.00S/ÂŁ33.95 cloth 978-0-262-03411-1

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

HISTORY OF COMPUTING

histor y of computing

ENIAC in Action

Now the Chips Are Down

Making and Remaking the Modern Computer

The BBC Micro

Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, and Crispin Rope

Alison Gazzard

Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first The history of the first general-purpose programprogrammable electronic mable electronic computer. computer, from its But ENIAC was more than conception, construction, just a milestone on the road and use to its afterlife as a to the modern computer. part of computing folklore. During its decade of operational life, ENIAC calculated sines and cosines and tested for statistical outliers, plotted the trajectories of bombs and shells, and ran the first numerical weather simulations. ENIAC in Action tells the whole story for the first time, from ENIAC’s design, construction, testing, and use to its afterlife as part of computing folklore. It highlights the complex relationship of ENIAC and its designers to the revolutionary approaches to computer architecture and coding first documented by John von Neumann in 1945. Within this broad sweep, the authors emphasize the crucial but previously neglected years of 1947 to 1948, when ENIAC was reconfigured to run what the authors claim was the first modern computer program to be executed: a simulation of atomic fission for Los Alamos researchers. The authors view ENIAC from diverse perspectives—as a machine of war, as the “first computer,” as a material artifact constantly remade by its users, and as a subject of (contradictory) historical narratives. They integrate the history of the machine and its applications, describing the mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who proposed and designed ENIAC as well as the men and—particularly the women—who built, programmed, and operated it.

In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched its Computer Literacy Project, intended “to introduce interested adults to the world of The story of a pioneering computers and computing.” microcomputer: its begin- The BBC accompanied this nings as part of a national initiative with television Computer Literary Project, programs, courses, books, its innovative hardware, and software—an early and its creative uses. experiment in multi-platform education. The BBC, along with Acorn Computers, also introduced the BBC Microcomputer, which would be at the forefront of the campaign. The BBC Micro was designed to meet the needs of users in homes and schools, to demystify computing, and to counter the general pessimism among the media in Britain about technology. In this book, Alison Gazzard looks at the BBC Micro, examining the early capabilities of multi-platform content generation and consumption and the multiple literacies this approach enabled—not only in programming and software creation, but also in accessing information across a range of media, and in “do-it-yourself ” computing. She links many of these early developments to current new-media practices. Gazzard looks at games developed for the BBC Micro, including Granny’s Garden, an educational game for primary schools, and Elite, the seminal space-trading game. She considers the shift in focus from hardware to peripherals, describing the Teletext Adapter as an early model for software distribution and the Domesday Project (which combined texts, video, and still photographs) as a hypermedia-like experience. Gazzard’s account shows the BBC Micro not only as a vehicle for various literacies but also as a user-oriented machine that pushed the boundaries of what could be achieved in order to produce something completely new.

Thomas Haigh is Associate Professor of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Mark Priestley and Crispin Rope are independent researchers.

Alison Gazzard is a Lecturer in Media Arts and Education at the UCL February | 7 x 9, 368 pp. | 43 illus.

Institute of Education at University College London.

$38.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03398-5

March | 6 x 9, 224 pp. | 14 illus.

History of Computing series

$38.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03403-6 Platform Studies

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

EDUCATION

ENVIRONMENT

education | media studies

environment | Latin American studies

Education and Social Media

Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions

Toward a Digital Future edited by Christine Greenhow, Julia Sonnevend, and Colin Agur

Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters

How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundaLeading scholars from tions of education? What a variety of disciplines controversies surround the explore the future of edu- integration of social media cation, including social in students’ lives? The past media usage, new norms decade has brought inof knowledge, privacy, creased access to new media, copyright, and MOOCs. and with this new opportunities and challenges for education. In this book, leading scholars from education, law, communications, sociology, and cultural studies explore the digital transformation now taking place in a variety of educational contexts. The contributors examine such topics as social media usage in schools, online youth communities, and distance learning in developing countries; the disruption of existing educational models of how knowledge is created and shared; privacy; accreditation; and the tension between the new ease of sharing and copyright laws. Case studies examine teaching media in K–12 schools and at universities; tuition-free, open education powered by social media, as practiced by the University of the People; new financial models for higher education; the benefits and challenges of MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses); social media and teacher education; and the civic and individual advantages of teens’ participatory play.

Ecuador is biologically diverse, petroleum rich, and economically poor. Its extraordinary biodiversity has attracted attention and funding from such An account of the movetransnational environmental ment for sustainable organizations as Conserdevelopment in Ecuador vation International, the through four eras: moveWorld Wildlife Fund, and ment origins, neoliberal the United States Agency boom, neoliberal bust, for International Developand citizens’ revolution. ment. In Ecuador itself there are more than 200 environmental groups dedicated to sustainable development, and the country’s 2008 constitution grants constitutional rights to nature. Petroleum extraction is Ecuador’s leading source of revenue. While extraction generates economic growth, which supports the state’s social welfare agenda, it also causes environmental destruction. Given these competing concerns, will Ecuador be able to achieve sustainability? In this book, Tammy Lewis examines the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins (1978 to 1987), neoliberal boom (1987 to 2000), neoliberal bust (2000 to 2006), and citizens’ revolution (2006 to 2015). Lewis presents a typology of Ecuador’s environmental organizations: ecoimperialists, transnational environmentalists from other countries; ecodependents, national groups that partner with transnational groups; and ecoresisters, homegrown environmentalists who reject the dominant development paradigm. She explores what configuration of forces—political, economic, and environmental—is most likely to lead to a sustainable balance between the social system and the ecosystem.

Christine Greenhow is Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education at Michigan State University’s College of Education and former Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Julia Sonnevend is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. Colin Agur is Bartlett Fellow for Access to Knowledge at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. May | 6 x 9, 256 pp. | 1 illus. $30.00S/£20.95 paper 978-0-262-52904-4 $60.00S/£41.95 cloth 978-0-262-03447-0 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning

Tammy L. Lewis

Tammy L. Lewis is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York/Brooklyn College and Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center in Sociology and Earth and Environmental Sciences. April | 6 x 9, 280 pp. | 30 illus. $30.00S/£20.95 paper 978-0-262-52877-1 $65.00S/£44.95 cloth 978-0-262-03429-6

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

ENVIRONMENT

environmental justice | sociolog y

environment | political science

Fighting King Coal

New Earth Politics

The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia

Essays from the Anthropocene

Shannon Elizabeth Bell In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness An examination of why so have led to the emergence of few people suffering from a grassroots, women-driven environmental hazards environmental justice moveand pollution choose to ment. But the number of participate in environmental local activists is small relative justice movements. to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge. In Fighting King Coal, Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines an understudied puzzle within social movement theory: why so few of the many people who suffer from industry-produced environmental hazards and pollution rise up to participate in social movements aimed at bringing about social justice and industry accountability. Using the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia as a case study, Bell investigates the challenges of micromobilization through in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis, geospatial viewshed analysis, and an eight-month “Photovoice” project—an innovative means of studying, in real time, the social dynamics affecting activist involvement in the region. Although the Photovoice participants took striking photographs and wrote movingly about the environmental destruction caused by coal production, only a few became activists. Bell reveals the importance of local identities to the success or failure of local recruitment efforts in social movement struggles, ultimately arguing that, if the local identities of environmental justice movements are lost, the movements may also lose their power. Shannon Elizabeth Bell is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight

Humanity’s collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political Prominent scholars and and social capacities for practitioners consider managing it. We are in effect the role of global environ- creating an Earth 2.0 on mental politics in the which the human signature face of increasing is everywhere, a “new earth” environmental stress. in desperate need of humane and insightful guidance. In this volume, prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new earth, and probe the field’s deepest and most enduring questions at a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in complementary pairs, the essays in this volume include reflections on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities, reflections on the power of social movements and international institutions, and calls for more compelling narratives to promote environmental action. At the heart of the volume is sustained attention to the role of traditional scholarly activities in a world confronting environmental disaster. Some contributors make the case that it is the scholar’s role to provide activists with the necessary knowledge and tools; others argue for more direct engagement and political action. All the contributors confront the overriding question: What is the best use of their individual and combined energies, given the dire environmental reality? Simon Nicholson is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Director of the Environmental Politics Program at American University. Sikina Jinnah is Assistant Professor of International Relations at American University and author of Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press).

for Environmental Justice.

April | 6 x 9, 464 pp. | 9 illus.

April | 6 x 9, 320 pp. | 60 illus.

$34.00S/£23.95 paper 978-0-262-52919-8

$32.00S/£22.95 paper 978-0-262-52880-1

$68.00S/£29.95 cloth 978-0-262-03436-4

$65.00S/£44.95 cloth 978-0-262-03434-0

Earth System Governance series

Urban and Industrial Environments series 66

edited by Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

ENVIRONMENT | POLITICAL SCIENCE

environment | political science

political science | economics

Between Preservation and Exploitation

Polarized America

Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries

Second Edition

Kemi Fuentes-George In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic A study of biodiversity development activities— governance analyzes the bauxite mining in Jamaica factors that determine and large-scale tourism and the effectiveness of overfishing on the eastern transnational advocacy coast of the Yucatán Peninnetworks and the imporsula. In each case, the catatance of justice claims lyst for the campaign was to conservation. information gathered and disseminated by transnational advocacy networks (TANs) of researchers, academics, and activists. Both campaigns were successful despite opposition from industry supporters. Meanwhile, simultaneous campaigns to manage land in another part of the Yucatán and to conserve migratory birds in Egypt had far less success. In this book, Kemi Fuentes-George uses these four cases to analyze factors that determine the success or failure of efforts by TANs to persuade policymakers and private sector actors in developing countries to change environmental behavior. Fuentes-George argues that in order to influence the design and implementation of policy, TANs must generate a scientific consensus, create social relationships with local actors, and advocate for biodiversity in a way that promotes local environmental justice. In their conservation efforts, Jamaica, Mexico, and Egypt were attempting to meet their obligations under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and other regional agreements. Fuentes-George’s innovative analysis shows the importance of local environmental justice for the implementation of international environmental treaties. Kemi Fuentes-George is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. April | 6 x 9, 352 pp. | 21 illus. $32.00S/£22.95 paper 978-0-262-52876-4

The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché. Updated analysis of how What commentators miss, the increasing polarizahowever, is that increasing tion of American politics polarization has been closely has been accompanied accompanied by fundaand accelerated by greater mental social and economic income inequality. changes—most notably, a parallel rise in income inequality. In this second edition of Polarized America, Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal use the latest data to examine the relationships of polarization, wealth disparity, immigration, and other forces. They find that inequality feeds directly into political polarization, and polarization in turn creates policies that further increase inequality. Paul Krugman called the first edition of Polarized America “Important. . . . Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what’s happening to America.” The second edition has been thoroughly brought up to date. All statistical analyses, tables, and figures have been updated with data that run through 2012 or 2014, and the text has been revised to reflect the latest evidence. The chapter on campaign finance has been completely rewritten (with Adam Bonica as coauthor); the analysis shows that with so much “soft” money coming from very wealthy ideological extremists, there is even greater campaign contribution inequality than income inequality. Nolan McCarty is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Keith T. Poole is Philip H. Alston Distinguished Professor of the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Howard Rosenthal is Professor of Politics at New York University and Roger Williams Straus Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. March | 6 x 9, 272 pp. | 73 illus. $29.00S/£19.95 paper 978-0-262-52862-7 Walras-Pareto Lectures series

$65.00S/£44.95 cloth 978-0-262-03428-9 Politics, Science, and the Environment series

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

ECONOMICS

economics | law

The Regulation of International Trade

Volume 1: GATT

Volume 2: The WTO Agreements on Trade in Goods

Petros C. Mavroidis

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created alongside other towering achievements of the post-World War II era, including the A detailed examination United Nations, the World of the GATT regime for Bank, and the International international trade, disMonetary Fund. GATT, the cussing the negotiating first successful agreement to record, policy background, generate multilateral trade economic rationale, and liberalization, became the case law. principal institution to administer international trade for the next six decades. In this book, Petros Mavroidis offers detailed examination of the GATT regime for international trade, discussing the negotiating record, policy background, economic rationale, and case law. Mavroidis offers a substantive first chapter that provides a detailed historical background to GATT that stretches from the 1927 World Economic Conference through Bretton Woods and the Atlantic Charter. Each of the following chapters examines the disciplines agreed to, their negotiating record, their economic rationale, and subsequent practice. Mavroidis focuses on cases that have influenced the prevailing understanding of the norm, as well as on literature that has contributed to its interpretation, and the final outcome. In particular, he examines quantitative restrictions and tariffs; the most favored nation clause (MFN), the cornerstone of the GATT edifice; preferential trade agreements and special treatment for products originating in developing countries; domestic instruments; and exceptions to the obligations assumed under GATT. This book’s companion volume examines World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements regulating trade in goods.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has extended its institutional arsenal since the Kennedy round in the early 1960s. The current A detailed examination institutional design is the of WTO agreements outcome of the Uruguay regulating trade in goods, round and agreements discussing legal context, reached in the ongoing policy background, Doha round (begun in 2001). economic rationale, One of the institutional and case law. outgrowths of GATT is the World Trade Organization (WT0), created in 1995. In this book, Petros Mavroidis offers a detailed examination of WTO agreements regulating trade in goods, discussing legal context, policy background, economic rationale, and case law. Each chapter examines a given legal norm and its subsequent practice. In particular, he discusses agreements dealing with customs clearance; “contingent protection” instruments, which allow WTO members unilaterally to add to the negotiated amount of protection when a certain contingency (for example, dumping) has occurred; TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) and SPS (Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary Measures) agreements, both of which deal with such domestic instruments as environmental, health policy, or consumer information; the agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIM); sector-specific agreements on agriculture and textiles; plurilateral agreements (binding a subset of WTO membership) on government procurement and civil aviation; and transparency in trade relations. This book’s companion volume examines the GATT regime for international trade.

Petros C. Mavroidis is Edwin B. Parker Professor of Law at Columbia

Law School and Professor of Law at the University Neuchâtel. He was

previously a member of the Legal Affairs Division at the WTO.

Petros C. Mavroidis is Edwin B. Parker Professor of Law at Columbia

previously a member of the Legal Affairs Division at the WTO. May | 7 x 9, 808 pp. | 10 illus. February | 7 x 9, 648 pp. | 2 illus. $86.00S/£59.95 cloth 978-0-262-02984-1

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

$92.00S/£63.95 cloth 978-0-262-02999-5

economics

economics | policy

environmental economics

Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms

Water Resource Economics

edited by Apostolis Philippopoulos

Second Edition

The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, total government expenditures have been around fifty Theoretically and empiripercent of GDP since the cally informed studies early 2000s, resulting in a on the role and efficiency growing tax burden or high of the public sector, public public debt or both. At the wage and employment same time, government has policy, privatization, intervened in all aspects of tax policy, and fiscal economic life, from the prosustainability. vision of public goods and services to product and labor market regulation. Research shows that the effect of government size on economic performance is positive in countries where the public sector is efficient but negative in countries where it is inefficient. In this book, experts from academe and central banking discuss reforms that would make the public sector more efficient and/or more equitable. After a rich review of the public sector reform policy agenda, with particular attention to the role of the public sector and how to improve the provision of public goods and services, the contributors offer theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on some specific policy topics. These include public wage and employment policy, the role of international institutions such as the World Bank in promoting public sector reforms, the optimal mix of tax policy, the measurement of public sector efficiency, and the study of fiscal sustainability. The contributors relate these topics to such deeper issues as individual incentives as well as to policy debates over privatization, and austerity.

Ronald C. Griffin

Apostolis Philippopoulos is Professor of Economics at Athens University of Economics and Business. June | 6 x 9, 392 pp. | 57 illus. $38.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03444-9 CESifo Seminar series

The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects

Economics brings powerful insights to water management, but most water professionals receive limited training in it. The second edition of this Updated edition of text offers a comprehena comprehensive introsive development of water duction to the economics resource economics that is of water management, accessible to engineers and with self-contained treat- natural scientists as well as ment of all necessary to economists. The goal is to economic concepts. build a practical platform for understanding and performing economic analysis using both theoretical and empirical tools. Familiarity with microeconomics or natural resource economics is helpful, but all the economics needed is presented and developed progressively in the text. The book focuses on the scarcity of water quantity (rather than on water quality). The author presents the economic theory of resource allocation, recognizing the peculiarities imposed by water, and then goes on to treat a range of subjects including conservation, groundwater depletion, water law, policy analysis, cost–benefit analysis, water marketing, privatization, and demand and supply estimation. Added features of this updated edition include a new chapter on water scarcity risk (with climate change and necessary risk tools introduced progressively) and new risk-attentive material elsewhere in the text; sharper treatment of block rates and pricing doctrine; expanded attention to contemporary literature and issues; and new appendixes on input–output analysis, water footprinting and virtual water, and cost allocation. Each chapter ends with a summary and exercises. Ronald C. Griffin is Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University. March | 7 x 9, 496 pp. | 69 illus. $96.00X/£66.95 cloth 978-0-262-03404-3

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

BUSINESS

business | marketing

Customer-Centric Marketing A Pragmatic Framework R. Ravi and Baohong Sun

State-of-the-art analytic and quantitative methods for using big data to craft effective real-time, dynamic customer-centric marketing plans.

The revolution in big data has enabled a game-changing approach to marketing. The asynchronous and continuous collection of customer data carries rich signals about consumer preferences and consumption patterns. Use of this data can make marketing adaptive, dynamic, and responsive to changes in individual customer behavior. This book introduces state-of-the-art analytic and quantitative methods for customer-centric marketing (CCM). Rather than using a snapshot from the data to plot a single campaign-centric marketing plan, these methods draw on cutting-edge research in optimization and interactive marketing with the goal of maximizing long-term profit from data collected over time. The aim is to teach readers to apply optimization tools to derive analytical solutions leading to customized, dynamic, proactive, and real-time marketing decisions. The book develops the CCM framework and illustrates it with four cases that span the life cycle of marketing: pricing, win-back, cross-sales, and customer service allocation. The text walks the reader through real-world examples of applying the framework (supported by spreadsheet models available online), then explains the key concepts: modeling consumer choice; segmenting customers into latent classes based on sensitivity; computing customer lifetime value (CLV); and dynamic optimization. The reader then learns to incorporate the continuous learning of customer preference into an adaptive feedback loop for marketing decisions. The book can be used as a text for MBA students or as a professional reference.

March 7 x 9, 128 pp. 9 illus.

R. Ravi is Andris A. Zoltners Professor of Business, Rohet Tolani Distinguished

$32.00X/ÂŁ22.95 paper 978-0-262-52905-1

tinguished Chair Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean of Global Programs,

Professor, and Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tepper School of Business. Baohong Sun is Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Disand Director of the Customer Information Management Center at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (New York). This book is based on joint research developed at Carnegie Mellon University when both authors were on the faculty at the Tepper School of Business.

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

LINGUISTICS

linguistics

Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface

Contiguity Theory

The Theta System Tanya Reinhart edited by Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, and Eric Reuland One of Tanya Reinhart’s major contributions to linguistic theory is the development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between A systematic exposition the system of concepts and of Reinhart’s Theta the linguistic computational System, with extensive system. Reinhart introduced annotations and essays her theory in a seminal that capture subsequent paper, “The Theta System: developments. Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts” (2000) and subsequently published other papers with further theoretical development. Although Reinhart continued to work on the Theta System, she had not completed a planned Linguistic Inquiry volume on the topic before her untimely death in 2007. This book, then, is the first to offer a systematic exposition of Reinhart’s Theta System. The core of the book is Reinhart’s 2000 paper, accompanied by substantial endnotes with clarifications, summaries, and links to subsequent modifications of the theory, some in Reinhart’s unpublished work. An appendix by Marijana Marelj discusses the domain of Case, based on an LSA course she taught with Reinhart in 2005. Two additional essays by Reinhart’s linguistic colleagues discuss the division of labor between the lexicon and syntax and the apparent conflict between the Theta System and Distributed Morphology. The late Tanya Reinhart was the Interface Chair at Utrecht University, a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU, and the author of Interface Strategies: Optimal and Costly Computations (MIT Press) and other books. Martin Everaert and Marijana Marelj are affiliated with the Linguistics Department at Utrecht University. Eric Reuland is Faculty Professor of Language and Cognition at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS). April | 6 x 9, 288 pp. $37.00S/£25.95 paper 978-0-262-52865-8 $74.00S/£51.95 cloth 978-0-262-03413-5

Norvin Richards Languages differ in the types of overt movement they display. For example, some languages (including English) require subjects to move to a preverAn argument that the bal position, while others word order of a given (including Italian) allow sublanguage is largely jects to remain postverbal. In predictable from indepen- its current form, Minimalism dently observable facts offers no real answer to the about its phonology question of why these differand morphology. ent types of movements are distributed among languages as they are. In Contiguity Theory, Norvin Richards argues that there are universal conditions on morphology and phonology, particularly in how the prosodic structures of language can be built, and that these universal structures interact with languagespecific properties of phonology and morphology. He argues that the grammar begins the construction of phonological structure earlier in the derivation than previously thought, and that the distribution of overt movement operations is largely determined by the grammar’s efforts to construct this structure. Rather than appealing to diacritic features, the explanations will generally be rooted in observable phenomena. Richards posits a different kind of relation between syntax and morphology than is usually found in Minimalism. According to his Contiguity Theory, if we know, for example, what inflectional morphology is attached to the verb in a given language, and what the rules are for where stress is placed in the verb, then we will know where the verb goes in the sentence. Ultimately, the goal is to construct a theory in which a complete description of the phonology and morphology of a given language is also a description of its syntax. Norvin Richards is Professor of Linguistics at MIT and the author of Uttering Trees (MIT Press). June | 6 x 9, 368 pp. | 4 illus. $38.00S/£26.95 paper 978-0-262-52882-5 $76.00S/£52.95 cloth 978-0-262-03442-5 Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

NEUROSCIENCE

neuroscience | vision

Vision How It Works and What Can Go Wrong John E. Dowling and Joseph L. Dowling, Jr.

Descriptions of basic visual mechanisms and related clinical abnormalities, by a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist. April 5 3/8 x 8, 208 pp. 9 color plates, 69 illus. $32.00S/ÂŁ22.95 cloth 978-0-262-03461-6

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and treating eye disorders. And yet the scientist is not always aware of the latest clinical advances and the clinician is often not up to date on the basic scientific discoveries. Writing in nontechnical language, John and Joseph Dowling, a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist, examine vision from both perspectives, providing concise descriptions of basic visual mechanisms and related clinical abnormalities. Thus, an account of the photoreceptors is followed by a consideration of retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration; an explanation of the retinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s function is followed by details of glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. The authors begin with the cornea and lens, which project an image on the light-sensitive elements inside the eye, the photoreceptors, and how that process can be compromised by such disorders as cataracts and corneal disease. They go on to describe, among other things, how the photoreceptors capture light; retinal and visual cortical anatomy and physiology; and higher level visual processing that leads to perception. Cortical disorders such as amblyopia are discussed as well as specific deficits such as the inability to recognize faces, colors, or moving objects. Finally, they survey the evolution of our knowledge of vision, and speculate about future advances. John E. Dowling is Gordon and Llura Gund Research Professor of Neurosciences in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. Joseph L. Dowling, Jr., is a practicing ophthalmologist and the founder of the Rhode Island Eye Institute. The Dowlings are brothers, both active in their fields for more than fifty years. Their father was the first ophthalmologist in Rhode Island.

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

evolutionar y biolog y

cognitive science | psycholog y

Multicellularity

Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality

Origins and Evolution edited by Karl J. Niklas and Stuart A. Newman foreword by John Tyler Bonner The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities and discordances, selective advantages and Scholars consider the disadvantages, physical deterorigins and consequences minants of development, and of the evolution of the origins of morphological multicellularity. novelties. It also represents a change in the definition of individuality, because a new organism emerges from interactions among single cells. This volume considers these and other questions, with contributions that explore the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of topics, organisms, and experimental protocols. Each section focuses on selected topics or particular lineages that present a significant insight or challenge. The contributors consider the fossil record of the paleontological circumstances in which animal multicellularity evolved; cooptation, recurrent patterns, modularity, and plausible pathways for multicellular evolution in plants; theoretical approaches to the amoebozoa and fungi (cellular slime molds having long provided a robust model system for exploring the evolution of multicellularity), plants, and animals; genomic toolkits of metazoan multicellularity; and philosophical aspects of the meaning of individuality in light of multicellular evolution.

edited by Laura Macchi, Maria Bagassi, and Riccardo Viale foreword by Keith Frankish This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, Examining the role of and economic behavior. The implicit, unconscious essays focus on the role of thinking on reasoning, implicit, unconscious thinkdecision making, problem ing in creativity and problem solving, creativity, and its solving, the interaction of neurocognitive basis, for intuition and analytic thinka genuinely psychological ing, and the relationship conception of rationality. between communicative heuristics and thought. The analyses move beyond the conventional conception of mind informed by extra-psychological theoretical models toward a genuinely psychological conception of rationality—a rationality no longer limited to conscious, explicit thought, but able to exploit the intentional implicit level. The contributors consider a new conception of human rationality that must cope with the uncertainty of the real world; the implications of abandoning the normative model of classic logic and adopting a probabilistic approach instead; the argumentative and linguistic aspects of reasoning; and the role of implicit thought in reasoning, creativity, and its neurological base.

Karl J. Niklas is Professor of Plant Biology at Cornell University.

Laura Macchi is Professor of General Psychology in the Department

Stuart A. Newman is Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New

of Psychology at the University of Milano-Biococca. Maria Bagassi is

York Medical College.

Senior Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Milano-Biococca. Riccardo Viale is Professor of Behavioral and Cog-

Contributors

nitive Sciences at the Scuola Nazionale dell’Amministrazione, Rome.

Maja Adamska, Argyris Arnellos, Juan A. Arias, Eugenio Azpeitia, Mariana Benítez, Adriano Bonforti, John Tyler Bonner, Peter L. Conlin,

Contributors

A. Keith Dunker, Salva Duran-Nebreda, Ana E. Escalante,

Maria Bagassi, Linden J. Ball, Jean Baratgin, Aron K. Barbey, Tilmann Betsch,

Valeria Hernández-Hernández, Kunihiko Kaneko, Andrew H. Knoll,

Eric Billaut, Jean-François Bonnefon, Pierre Bonnier, Shira Elqayam,

Stephan G. König, Daniel J. G. Lahr, Ottoline Leyser, Alan C. Love,

Keith Frankish, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ken Gilhooly, Denis Hilton, Anna Lang,

Raul Montañez, Emilio Mora van Cauwelaert, Alvaro Moreno,

Stefanie Lindow, Laura Macchi, Hugo Mercier, Giuseppe Mosconi,

Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Aurora M. Nedelcu, Stuart A. Newman,

Ian R. Newman, Mike Oaksford, David Over, Guy Politzer, Johannes Ritter,

Karl J. Niklas, William C. Ratcliff, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, Ricard Solé

Steven A. Sloman, Edward J. N. Stupple, Ron Sun, Nicole H. Therriault, Valerie A. Thompson, Emmanuel Trouche-Raymond, Riccardo Viale

March | 7 x 9, 312 pp. | 54 illus. $54.00S/£37.95 cloth 978-0-262-03415-9 Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology

April | 7 x 9, 384 pp. | 24 illus. $54.00S/£37.95 cloth 978-0-262-03408-1 mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

PHILOSOPHY | COGNITIVE SCIENCE

cognitive science | neuroscience

philosophy | cognitive science

The Pragmatic Turn

Open MIND

Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century

edited by Andreas K. Engel, Karl J. Friston, and Danica Kragic

edited by Thomas Metzinger and Jennifer M. Windt

Cognitive science is experiencing a pragmatic turn away from the traditional representation-centered framework toward a view that focuses on understandExperts from a range ing cognition as “enactive.” of disciplines assess This enactive view holds that the foundations and cognition does not produce implications of a novel models of the world but rather action-oriented view subserves action as it is groundof cognition. ed in sensorimotor skills. In this volume, experts from cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, robotics, and philosophy of mind assess the foundations and implications of a novel actionoriented view of cognition. Their contributions and supporting experimental evidence show that an enactive approach to cognitive science enables strong conceptual advances, and the chapters explore key concepts for this new model of cognition. The contributors discuss the implications of an enactive approach for cognitive development; action-oriented models of cognitive processing; actionoriented understandings of consciousness and experience; and the accompanying paradigm shifts in the fields of philosophy, brain science, robotics, and psychology. Andreas K. Engel is Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Karl J. Friston is Wellcome Principal Fellow and Scientific Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and a Professor at University College London. Danica Kragic is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Autonomous Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. March | 6 x 9, 432 pp.

This collection offers the most comprehensive collection on consciousness, brain, and mind available. It gathers 39 original papers by leaders in the field A unique interdisciplinary followed by commentaries collection of papers and written by emerging scholars commentaries by leading and replies by the original researchers and rising paper’s authors. Taken toscholars, representing gether, the papers, commenthe latest research on taries, and replies provide a consciousness, mind, cross-section of cutting-edge and brain. research in philosophy and cognitive science. Open MIND is an experiment in both interdisciplinary and intergenerational scholarship. Open MIND grows out of the MIND Group, an independent, international body of young philosophers and scientists with a strong interest in the mind, consciousness, and cognition. The original and supporting materials are available online at open-mind.net. Authors include Michael L. Anderson, Andreas Bartels, Tim Bayne, Christian Beyer, Ned Block, Paul M. Churchland, Andy Clark, Carl S. Craver, Holk Cruse, Daniel C. Dennett, Jérôme Dokic, Chris Eliasmith, Kathinka Evers, Vittorio Gallese, Philip Gerrans, Rick Grush, John-Dylan Haynes, Heiko Hecht, J. Allan Hobson, Jakob Hohwy, Pierre Jacob, J. Scott Jordan, Victor Lamme, Bigna Lenggenhager, Caleb Liang, Richard Menary, Albert Newen, Alva Noë, Gerard O’Brien, Elisabeth Pacherie, Jesse Prinz, Joëlle Proust, Antti Revonsuo, Adina Roskies, Jonathan Schooler, Anil K. Seth, Wolf Singer, Evan Thompson, Ursula Voss, Kenneth Williford Thomas Metzinger is Professor of Philosophy and Fellow at the Gutenberg Research College at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Study in Frankfurt am Main. He is the editor of Neural Correlates of

$49.00S/£33.95 cloth 978-0-262-03432-6

Consciousness and the author of Being No One, both published by

Strüngmann Forum Reports

Melbourne, and the author of Dreaming (MIT Press).

the MIT Press. Jennifer M. Windt is a Lecturer at Monash University,

February | Two volume set, 8 1/2 x 10 7/8, 1,720 pp. | 150 color illus. $285.00X/£197.95 cloth 978-0-262-03460-9

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

PHILOSOPHY

philosophy

Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931–1941 edited by Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as the “Black Notebooks” after the black oilcloth booklets into which he first transcribed his thoughts. In 2014, the notebooks from 1931 to 1941 were published, sparking immediate controversy. It has long been acknowledged that Heidegger was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazi Party in the early 1930s. But the notebooks contain a number of anti-Semitic passages—often referring to the stereotype of “World-Jewry”—written even after Heidegger became disenchanted with the Nazis themselves. Reactions from the scholarly community have ranged from dismissal of the significance of these passages to claims that the anti-Semitism in them contaminates all of Heidegger’s work. This volume offers the first collection of responses by Heidegger scholars to the publication of the notebooks. In essays commissioned especially for the book, the contributors offer a wide range of views, addressing not only the issues of anti-Semitism and Nazism but also the broader questions that the notebooks raise. Ingo Farin is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Latrobe University. He is the author of Heidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World and Heidegger and the Thinking of Place: Explorations in the Topology of Being, both published by the MIT Press.

Heidegger scholars consider the philosopher’s recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger’s Nazism and anti-Semitism.

Contributors Babette Babich, Andrew Bowie, Steven Crowell, Fred Dallmayr, Donatella Di Cesare, Michael Fagenblat, Ingo Farin, Gregory Fried, Jean Grondin, Karsten Harries, Laurence Paul Hemming, Jeff Malpas, Thomas Rohkrämer, Tracy B. Strong, Peter Trawny, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, Nancy A. Weston,

March 7 x 9, 376 pp. $38.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03401-2

Holger Zaborowski

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

PHILOSOPHY | COGNITIVE SCIENCE

philosophy | cognitive science

philosophy of language | cognition

Cognitive Pluralism

Disclosing the World

Steven Horst

On the Phenomenology of Language

Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the basic units of knowledge and understanding are concepts, beliefs, and argumentative inferences. An argument that we In Cognitive Pluralism, Steven understand the world Horst proposes that another through many specialsort of unit—a mental model purpose mental models of a content domain—is of different content the fundamental unit of domains, and an exploraunderstanding. He argues tion of the philosophical that understanding comes implications. not in word-sized concepts, sentence-sized beliefs, or argument-sized reasoning but in the form of idealized models and in domain-sized chunks. He argues further that this idea of “cognitive pluralism”—the claim that we understand the world through many such models of a variety of content domains— sheds light on a number of problems in philosophy. Horst first presents the “standard view” of cognitive architecture assumed in mainstream epistemology, semantics, truth theory, and theory of reasoning. He then explains the notion of a mental model as an internal surrogate that mirrors features of its target domain, and puts it in the context of ideas in psychology, philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and theoretical cognitive science. Finally, he argues that the cognitive pluralist view not only helps to explain puzzling disunities of knowledge but also raises doubts about the feasibility of attempts to “unify” the sciences; presents a model-based account of intuitive judgments; and contends that cognitive pluralism favors a reliabilist epistemology and a “molecularist” semantics. Horst suggests that cognitive pluralism allows us to view rival epistemological and semantic theories not as direct competitors but as complementary accounts, each an idealized model of different dimensions of evaluation. Steven Horst is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Laws, Mind, and Free Will (MIT Press). June | 6 x 9, 392 pp. | 25 illus. $54.00S/£37.95 cloth 978-0-262-03423-4

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Andrew Inkpin In this book, Andrew Inkpin considers the disclosive function of language—what language does in revealing or disclosing the world. His approach to A phenomenological this question is a phenomconception of language, enological one, centering on drawing on Heidegger, the need to accord with the Merleau-Ponty, and various experiences speakers Wittgenstein, with can have of language. With implications for both this aim in mind, he develops the philosophy of a phenomenological conceplanguage and current tion of language with imporcognitive science. tant implications for both the philosophy of language and recent work in the embodied-embedded-enactive-extended (4e) tradition of cognitive science. Inkpin draws extensively on the work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, showing how their respective conceptions of language can be combined to complement each other within a unified view. From the early Heidegger, Inkpin extracts a basic framework for a phenomenological conception of language, comprising both a general picture of the role of language and a specific model of the function of words. Merleau-Ponty’s views are used to explicate the generic “pointing out”—or presentational—function of linguistic signs in more detail, while the late Wittgenstein is interpreted as providing versatile means to describe their many pragmatic uses. Having developed this unified phenomenological view, Inkpin explores its broader significance. He argues that it goes beyond the conventional realism/idealism opposition, that it challenges standard assumptions in mainstream post-Fregean philosophy of language, and that it makes a significant contribution not only to the philosophical understanding of language but also to 4e cognitive science. Andrew Inkpin is a Lecturer in Contemporary European Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. March | 6 x 9, 400 pp. $43.00S/£29.95 cloth 978-0-262-03391-6

PHILOSOPHY | BIOETHICS

PHILOSOPHY

philosophy | bioethics

philosophy | cognitive science

The Myth of the Moral Brain

Mental Time Travel

The Limits of Moral Enhancement

Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past

Harris Wiseman Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has An argument that been called the beginnings moral functioning is of “the golden age of neuroimmeasurably complex, science,” laboratory findings mediated by biology but claim to offer insights into not determined by it. how the brain “does” morality, even suggesting that it is possible to make people more moral by manipulating their biology. Can “moral bioenhancement”—using technological or pharmaceutical means to boost the morally desirable and remove the morally problematic—bring about a morally improved humanity? In The Myth of the Moral Brain, Harris Wiseman argues that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it. Morality cannot be engineered; there is no such thing as a “moral brain.” Wiseman takes a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from philosophy, biology, theology, and clinical psychology. He considers philosophical rationales for moral enhancement, and the practical realities they come up against; recent empirical work, including studies of the cognitive and behavioral effects of oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine; and traditional moral education, in particular the influence of religious thought, belief, and practice. Arguing that morality involves many interacting elements, Wiseman proposes an integrated bio-psycho-social approach to the consideration of moral enhancement. Such an approach would show that, by virtue of their sheer numbers, social and environmental factors are more important in shaping moral functioning than the neurobiological factors with which they are interwoven. Harris Wiseman received his PhD from the Faculty of Divinity at the

Kourken Michaelian In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature Drawing on current of remembering and research in psychology, memory knowledge. Current a new philosophical philosophical approaches account of remembering to memory rest on assumpas imagining the past. tions that are incompatible with the rich body of theory and data coming from psychology. Michaelian argues that abandoning those assumptions will result in a radically new philosophical understanding of memory. His novel, integrated account of episodic memory, memory knowledge, and their evolution makes a significant step in that direction. Michaelian situates episodic memory as a form of mental time travel and outlines a naturalistic framework for understanding it. Drawing on research in constructive memory, he develops an innovative simulation theory of memory; finding no intrinsic difference between remembering and imagining, he argues that to remember is to imagine the past. He investigates the reliability of simulational memory, focusing on the adaptivity of the constructive processes involved in remembering and the role of metacognitive monitoring; and he outlines an account of the evolution of episodic memory, distinguishing it from the forms of episodic-like memory demonstrated in animals. Memory research has become increasingly interdisciplinary. Michaelian’s account, built systematically on the findings of empirical research, not only draws out the implications of these findings for philosophical theories of remembering but also offers psychologists a framework for making sense of provocative experimental results on mental time travel.

University of Cambridge. He is currently a Senior Research Associate

Kourken Michaelian is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at

at the Institute of Education and University College London.

the University of Otago, New Zealand.

March | 6 x 9, 352 pp.

March | 6 x 9, 312 pp. | 10 illus.

$38.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03392-3

$43.00S/£29.95 cloth 978-0-262-03409-8

Basic Bioethics series

Life and Mind series

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

PHILOSOPHY | MEDIA STUDIES

philosophy | media studies

Of Remixology Ethics and Aesthetics after Remix David J. Gunkel

A new theory of moral and aesthetic value for the age of remix, going beyond the usual debates over originality and appropriation. February 6 x 9, 240 pp. 10 illus. $42.00S/£28.95 cloth 978-0-262-03393-0

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Remix—or the practice of recombining preexisting content—has proliferated across media both digital and analog. Fans celebrate it as a revolutionary new creative practice; critics characterize it as a lazy and cheap (and often illegal) recycling of other people’s work. In Of Remixology, David Gunkel argues that to understand remix, we need to change the terms of the debate. The two sides of the remix controversy, Gunkel contends, share certain underlying values—originality, innovation, artistic integrity. And each side seeks to protect these values from the threat that is represented by the other. In reevaluating these shared philosophical assumptions, Gunkel not only provides a new way to understand remix, he also offers an innovative theory of moral and aesthetic value for the twenty-first century. In a section called “Premix,” Gunkel examines the terminology of remix (including “collage,” “sample,” “bootleg,” and “mashup”) and its material preconditions, the technology of recording. In “Remix,” he takes on the distinction between original and copy; makes a case for repetition; and considers the question of authorship in a world of seemingly endless recompiled and repurposed content. Finally, in “Postmix,” Gunkel outlines a new theory of moral and aesthetic value that can accommodate remix and its cultural significance, remixing—or reconfiguring and recombining—traditional philosophical approaches in the process. David J. Gunkel is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics (MIT Press). “Impressively ranging from Plato’s bootleg to contemporary music, Of Remixology reveals the value of the bastards and samples—of our age and of previous times— and provides an axiological map that engenders new cultural-philosophical territory for the twenty-first century.” —Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK; author of Growing Moral Relations, Human Being @ Risk and Money Machines

GAME STUDIES

game studies | militar y histor y

game studies | Latin American studies

Zones of Control

Cultural Code

Perspectives on Wargaming

Video Games and Latin America

edited by Pat Harrigan and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Phillip Penix-Tadsen

foreword by James F. Dunnigan Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games Examinations of wargaming and game history. This for entertainment, volume fills that gap, provideducation, and military ing a diverse set of perspecplanning, in terms of tives on wargaming’s past, design, critical analysis, present, and future. In Zones and historical contexts. of Control, contributors consider wargames played for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. They consider both digital and especially tabletop games, most of which cover specific historical conflicts or are grounded in recognizable real-world geopolitics. Game designers and players will find the historical and critical contexts often missing from design and hobby literature; military analysts will find connections to game design and the humanities; and academics will find documentation and critique of a sophisticated body of cultural work in which the complexity of military conflict is represented in ludic systems and procedures. Each section begins with a long anchoring chapter by an established authority, which is followed by a variety of shorter pieces both analytic and anecdotal. Topics include the history of playing at war; operations research and systems design; wargaming and military history; wargaming’s ethics and politics; gaming irregular and non-kinetic warfare; and wargames as artistic practice. Pat Harrigan, a freelance writer and editor, is the coeditor of three game studies anthologies, First Person, Second Person, and Third Person, all published by the MIT Press. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University

Video games are becoming an ever more ubiquitous element of daily life, played by millions on devices that range from smart phones to desktop How culture uses games computers. An examination and how games use of this phenomenon reveals culture: an examination that video games are increasof Latin America’s gaming ingly being converted into practices and the reprecultural currency. For video sentation of the region’s game designers, culture cultures in games. is a resource that can be incorporated into games; for players, local gaming practices and specific social contexts can affect their playing experiences. In Cultural Code, Phillip Penix-Tadsen shows how culture uses games and how games use culture, looking at examples related to Latin America. Both static code and subjective play have been shown to contribute to the meaning of games; Penix-Tadsen introduces culture as a third level of creating meaning. Penix-Tadsen focuses first on how culture uses games, looking at the diverse practices of play in Latin America, the ideological and intellectual uses of games, and the creative and economic possibilities opened up by video games in Latin America—the evolution of regional game design and development. Examining how games use culture, Penix-Tadsen discusses in-game cultural representations of Latin America in a range of popular titles. He analyzes this through semiotics, the signifying systems of video games and the specific signifiers of Latin American culture; space, how culture is incorporated into different types of game environments; and simulation, the ways that cultural meaning is conveyed procedurally and algorithmically through gameplay mechanics. Phillip Penix-Tadsen is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Delaware.

of Maryland and the author of the award-winning Mechanisms: New

March | 7 x 9, 328 pp. | 88 illus.

Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press).

$53.00S/£36.95 cloth 978-0-262-03405-0

April | 8 x 9, 816 pp. | 116 illus. $50.00S/£34.95 cloth 978-0-262-03399-2 Game Histories series

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

game studies

SOUND STUDIES

game studies

sound studies

Debugging Game History

Sound as Popular Culture

A Critical Lexicon

A Research Companion

edited by Henry Lowood and Raiford Guins

edited by Jens Gerrit Papenburg and Holger Schulze

Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have Essays discuss the generally been fact-by-fact terminology, etymology, chronicles; fundamental and history of key terms, terms of game design and offering a foundation development, technology, for critical historical and play have rarely been studies of games. examined in the context of their historical, etymological, and conceptual underpinnings. This volume attempts to “debug” the flawed historiography of video games. It offers original essays on key concepts in game studies, arranged as in a lexicon—from “Amusement Arcade” to “Embodiment” to “Simulation.” Written by scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, including game development, curatorship, media archaeology, cultural studies, and technology studies, the essays offer a series of distinctive critical “takes” on historical topics. The majority of essays look at game history from the outside in; some take deep dives into the histories of play and simulation; others take on such technological components of games as code and audio. Not all essays are history or historical etymology—there is an analysis of game design, and a discussion of intellectual property—but they nonetheless raise questions for historians to consider. Taken together, the essays offer a foundation for the emerging study of game history.

The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an innovaScholars consider tive way. From an infant’s sound and its concepts, gurgles over a baby monitor taking as their premise to the roar of the crowd in the idea that popular a stadium to the sub-bass culture can be analyzed frequencies produced by in an innovative way sound systems in the disco through sound. era, sound—not necessarily aestheticized as music—is inextricably part of the many domains of popular culture. Expanding the view taken by many scholars of cultural studies, the contributors consider cultural practices concerning sound not merely as semiotic or signifying processes but as material, physical, perceptual, and sensory processes that integrate a multitude of cultural traditions and forms of knowledge. The chapters discuss conceptual issues as well as terminologies and research methods; analyze historical and contemporary case studies of listening in various sound cultures; and consider the ways contemporary practices of sound generation are applied in the diverse fields in which sounds are produced, mastered, distorted, processed, or enhanced. The chapters are not only about sound; they offer a study through sound—echoes from the past, resonances of the present, and the contradictions and discontinuities that suggest the future.

Henry Lowood is Curator for History of Science and Technology and

Popular Music History and Theory at Humboldt University Berlin.

for Film and Media collections at Stanford University and the coedi-

Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of

tor of The Machinima Reader (MIT Press). Raiford Guins is Associate

Copenhagen, where he is also Principal Investigator at the Sound

Professor of Culture and Technology at Stony Brook University and

Studies Lab. Papenburg and Schulze are cofounders of the research

the author of Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife

network Sound in Media Culture.

Jens Gerrit Papenburg is Lecturer and Research Associate in

(MIT Press). March | 7 x 9, 440 pp. | 29 illus. June | 7 x 9, 560 pp. | 25 illus. $49.00S/£33.95 cloth 978-0-262-03419-7 Game Histories series

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

$42.00S/£28.95 cloth 978-0-262-03390-9

NEW MEDIA

digital humanities | ne w media

ne w media | political science

Hermeneutica

Civic Media

Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities

Technology, Design, Practice

Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair

edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis

The image of the scholar as a solitary thinker dates back at least to Descartes’ Discourse on Method. But scholarly practices in the humanities are changing An introduction to text as older forms of communal analysis using computerinquiry are combined with assisted interpretive modern research methods practices, accompanied enabled by the Internet, by example essays that accessible computing, data illustrate the use of these availability, and new media. computational tools. Hermeneutica introduces text analysis using computer-assisted interpretive practices. It offers theoretical chapters about text analysis, presents a set of analytical tools (called Voyant) that instantiate the theory, and provides example essays that illustrate the use of these tools. Voyant allows users to integrate interpretation into texts by creating hermeneutica—small embeddable “toys” that can be woven into essays published online or into such online writing environments as blogs or wikis. The book’s companion website, Hermeneuti.ca, offers the example essays with both text and embedded interactive panels. The panels show results and allow readers to experiment with the toys themselves. The use of these analytical tools results in a hybrid essay: an interpretive work embedded with hermeneutical toys that can be explored for technique. The hermeneutica draw on and develop such common interactive analytics as word clouds and complex data journalism interactives. Embedded in scholarly texts, they create a more engaging argument. Moving between tool and text becomes another thread in a dynamic dialogue.

Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation, coordinate disaster relief, campaign for Examinations of civic policy change, and strengthengagement in digital en local advocacy groups. culture—the technologies, The world watched as designs, and practices activists used social media to that support connection organize protests during the through common purpose Arab Spring, Occupy Wall in civic, political, and Street, and Hong Kong’s social life. Umbrella Revolution. Many governmental and community organizations changed their mission and function as they adopted new digital tools and practices. This book examines the use of “civic media”—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Scholars from a range of disciplines and practitioners from a variety of organizations offer analyses and case studies that explore the theory and practice of civic media. The contributors set out the conceptual context for the intersection of civic and media; examine the pressure to innovate and the sustainability of innovation; explore play as a template for resistance; look at civic education; discuss media-enabled activism in communities; and consider methods and funding for civic media research. The case studies that round out each section range from a “debt resistance” movement to government service delivery ratings to the “It Gets Better” campaign aimed at combating suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth.

Geoffrey Rockwell is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing and Director of the Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the

Eric Gordon is Director of the Engagement Lab and Associate Professor

University of Alberta. Stéfan Sinclair is Associate Professor of Digital

of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. He is the coauthor of

Humanities at McGill University and coauthor of Visual Interface

Net Locality. Paul Mihailidis is Associate Director of the Engagement

Design for Digital Cultural Heritage.

Lab and Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Emerson College. He is the author of Media Literacy and the Emerg-

May | 6 x 9, 280 pp. | 65 illus.

ing Citizen.

$42.00S/£28.95 cloth 978-0-262-03435-7

July | 7 x 9, 632 pp. | 105 illus. $53.00S/£36.95 cloth 978-0-262-03427-2

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

new media

ne w media | sociolog y

art | ne w media

Off-Track and Online

Screen Ecologies

The Networked Spaces of Horse Racing

Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region

Holly Kruse The horse racing industry has been a pioneer in interactive media, information networks, and their deployment. The race track and the off-track betHow horse racing’s ting parlor offer interactive pioneering use of media environments that communication and reconfigure the relationinformation networks ships among private and helped shape the modern public space and presence media, information, and and copresence. In this leisure environment. book, Holly Kruse explores how horse racing has used media over the last several decades, arguing that examining the history and context of horse racing and gambling gives us a clearer understanding of the development of data networks, media complexes, public entertainment, and media publics. Kruse describes an enormous industry that depends on global information and communication flows made possible by a network linking racetracks, homes, off-track betting, farms, and auction sites. Racetrack architecture now allows for the presence of screens, most showing races from other locations. Online betting sites enable bettors to wager from home. Offtrack betting facilities collect wagers on races from all over the country. Odds are set interactively through the pari-mutuel market system. Kruse considers the uses of public space, and its redefinition by public screens; the effect of interactive media on the racing industry, including networked, in-home betting; the “technopanic” over online poker and the popularity of in-home pari-mutuel wagering; and the use of social media by racing fans to share information and creative work with no financial payoff. Holly Kruse is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at Rogers State University in Oklahoma.

Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp, and Linda Williams Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental How new media and deterioration represents a visual artists provide wider recognition of the alternative ways for political, economic, and understanding and cultural forces that are visualizing the entangleresponsible for our ongoing ments of media and environmental crisis. And the environment in the yet efforts to raise awareness Asia-Pacific. about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddled with irony, because the resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and waste associated with digital devices contribute to environmental damage and climate change. Screen Ecologies examines the relationship of media, art, and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region—a key site of both environmental degradation and the production and consumption of climate-aware screen art and media. Screen Ecologies shows how new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. It investigates such topics as artists’ exploration of alternative ways to represent the environment; regional stories of media innovation and climate change; the tensions between amateur and professional art; the emergence of biennials, triennials, and new arts organizations; the theme of water in regional art; new models for networked collaboration; and social media’s move from private to public realms. A generous selection of illustrations shows a range of artist’s projects. Larissa Hjorth, an artist ethnographer, is Professor in the School

May | 6 x 9, 208 pp. | 13 illus.

of Media and Communication at Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech-

$39.00S/£26.95 cloth 978-0-262-03441-8

nology (RMIT). Sarah Pink is Professor in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT. Kristen Sharp is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art at RMIT. Linda Williams is Associate Professor in the School of Art at RMIT. June | 7 x 9, 216 pp. | 61 illus. $37.00S/£25.95 cloth 978-0-262-03456-2 A Leonardo Book

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

digital humanities | philosophy | ne w media

digital humanities | poetr y

Pirate Philosophy

Aesthetic Animism

For a Digital Posthumanities

Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications

Gary Hall

David Jhave Johnston

In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires scholars to How philosophers transform their own lives and theorists can find and labor. Is there a way for new models for the philosophers and theorists creation, publication, to act not just for or with and dissemination of the antiausterity and student knowledge, challenging protestors—“graduates the received ideas of without a future”—but originality, authorship, in terms of their political and the book. struggles? Drawing on such phenomena as peer-to-peer file sharing and anticopyright/pro-piracy movements, Hall explores how those in academia can move beyond finding new ways of thinking about the world to find instead new ways of being theorists and philosophers in the world. Hall describes the politics of online sharing, the battles against the current intellectual property regime, and the actions of Anonymous, LulzSec, Aaron Swartz, and others, and he explains Creative Commons and the open access, open source, and free software movements. But in the heart of the book he considers how, when it comes to scholarly ways of creating, performing, and sharing knowledge, philosophers and theorists can challenge not just the neoliberal model of the entrepreneurial academic but also the traditional humanist model with its received ideas of proprietorial authorship, the book, originality, fixity, and the finished object. In other words, can scholars and students today become something like pirate philosophers?

This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it A poetics appropriate proposes a poetics approprito the digital era that ate to the digital era while connects digital poetry connecting digital poetry to to traditional poetry’s traditional poetry’s concerns concerns with being. with being (a.k.a. ontological implications). Digital poetry, in this context, is not simply a descendent of the book. Digital poems are not necessarily “poems” or written by “poets”; they are found in ads, conceptual art, interactive displays, performative projects, games, or apps. Poetic tools include algorithms, browsers, social media, and data. Code blossoms into poetic objects and poetic proto-organisms. Introducing the terms TAVs (Textual-Audio-Visuals) and TAVITS (Textual-Audio-Visual-Interactive), Aesthetic Animism theorizes a relation between scientific method and literary analysis; considers the temporal implications of animation software; and links software studies to creative writing. Above all it introduces many examples of digital poetry within a playful yet considered flexible taxonomy. In the future imagined here, digital poets program, sculpt, and nourish immense immersive interfaces of semiautonomous word ecosystems. Poetry, enhanced by code and animated by sensors, reengages themes active at the origin of poetry: animism, agency, consciousness. Digital poetry will be perceived as living, because it is living.

Gary Hall is Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts and

School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.

David Jhave Johnston, a digital poet, is Assistant Professor in the

Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University. He is the author of Culture in Bits and Digitize This Book!

July | 6 x 9, 264 pp. | 1 illus.

May | 6 x 9, 288 pp.

$40.00S/£27.95 cloth 978-0-262-03451-7

$42.00S/£28.95 cloth 978-0-262-03440-1 A Leonardo Book

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

computer science | digital humanities

Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities Nick Montfort

A book for anyone who wants to learn programming to explore and create, with exercises and projects to help the reader learn by doing. April 7 x 9, 296 pp. $40.00X/£27.95 cloth 978-0-262-03420-3

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

This book introduces programming to readers with a background in the arts and humanities; there are no prerequisites, and no knowledge of computation is assumed. In it, Nick Montfort reveals programming to be not merely a technical exercise within given constraints but a tool for sketching, brainstorming, and inquiring about important topics. He emphasizes programming’s exploratory potential—its facility to create new kinds of artworks and to probe data for new ideas. The book is designed to be read alongside the computer, allowing readers to program while making their way through the chapters. It offers practical exercises in writing and modifying code, beginning on a small scale and increasing in substance. In some cases, a specification is given for a program, but the core activities are a series of “free projects,” intentionally underspecified exercises that leave room for readers to determine their own direction and write different sorts of programs. Throughout the book, Montfort also considers how computation and programming are culturally situated—how programming relates to the methods and questions of the arts and humanities. The book uses Python and Processing, both of which are free software, as the primary programming languages. Nick Montfort is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the coauthor of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 and Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, the coeditor of The New Media Reader, and the author of Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, all published by the MIT Press.

BUsiNess | iNNOvAtiON

NOW IN PAPer

The Innovator’s Hypothesis How cheap experiments Are Worth more than good ideas Michael Schrage with a new preface for the paperback edition What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending “innovation vacations” and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. The Innovator’s Hypothesis addresses the innovation priorities of companies that live in the real world of limits. Michael Schrage advocates a cultural and strategic shift: small teams, collaboratively—and competitively—crafting business experiments that make top management sit up and take notice. He introduces the 5x5 framework: giving diverse teams of five people up to five days to come up with portfolios of five business experiments costing no more than $5,000 each and taking no longer than five weeks to run. Successful 5x5s, Schrage shows, make people more effective innovators, and more effective innovators mean more effective innovations. Michael Schrage is a Research Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. A sought-after consultant on lightweight, high-impact innovation design, he is the author of Serious Play: How The Worlds’ Best Companies Simulate To Innovate and Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become?, as well as a popular blogger on the Harvard Business Review website. “A practical guide—a simple and promising way to force ourselves to do better.” —dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality “i was surprised by the ferocity of [schrage’s] argument. i was also surprised by how much i agree with it. . . . What i like most about schrage’s approach is his smart guide to working with the ideas. it’s all about forging low cost,low risk experiments that help you figure out, for one thing, if the ideas are any good, but also to develop the ideas and make them better.” —Andy Boyton, Forbes Honorable Mention, 2014 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly excellence (PrOSe Award) in Business, Finance & Management

Achieving faster, better, cheaper, and more creative innovation outcomes with the 5X5 framework: 5 people, 5 days, 5 experiments, $5,000, and 5 weeks. march 6 x 9, 256 pp. $19.95T/£13.95 paper 978-0-262-52896-2 cloth 2014 978-0-262-02836-3

mitpRess.mit.edU | spRiNg 2016

design

Living with Complexity Donald A. Norman If only today’s technology were simpler! It’s the universal lament, but it’s wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It’s not complexity that’s the problem, it’s bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity. Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. Designers have to produce things that tame complexity. But we too have to do our part: we have to take the time to learn the structure and practice the skills. This is how we mastered reading and writing, driving a car, and playing sports, and this is how we can master our complex tools. Complexity is good. Simplicity is misleading. The good life is complex, rich, and rewarding—but only if it is understandable, sensible, and meaningful. Business Week has named Don Norman one of the world’s most influential designers. He has been both a professor and an executive: he was Vice President of Advanced Technology at Apple; his company, the Nielsen Norman Group, helps companies produce human-centered products and services; and he has been on the faculty at Harvard, the University of California, San Diego, Northwestern University, and KAIST, in South Korea. He is the author of many books,

Why we don’t really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity. March 5 3/8 x 8, 312 pp. 88 illus. $20.95T/£14.95 paper 978-0-262-52894-8 cloth 2010 978-0-262-01486-1

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

including The Design of Everyday Things, The Invisible Computer (MIT Press), Emotional Design, and The Design of Future Things. “In Living with Complexity, [Norman] brilliantly shows how, in a partnership between users and designers, we can tame the ravages of complex technology and complex situations to create experiences that work.” —Tim Brown, CEO and president, IDEO “Deep and enjoyably nail-hitting insights and recommendations fill his book.” —Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Times Higher Education

now in paper

higher education | environment

Buddhism | neuroscience

The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus

Zen-Brain Horizons

Mitchell Thomashow

James H. Austin, M.D.

afterword by Anthony Cortese

Toward a Living Zen

Colleges and universities offer our best hope for raising awareness about the climate crisis and the other environmental threats. But most college and university administrations need guidance on the path to sustainability. In The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus, Mitchell Thomashow, a former college president, provides just that. Drawing on his experiences at Unity College in Maine, he identifies nine elements for a sustainability agenda: energy, food, and materials (aspects of infrastructure); governance, investment, and wellness (aspects of community); and curriculum, interpretation, and aesthetics (aspects of learning). He then describes how Unity put these elements into practice. Connecting his experiences to broader concerns, Thomashow links the campus to the planet, reminding us that local efforts, taken together, can have a global impact.

In Zen-Brain Horizons, James Austin draws on his decades of experience as a neurologist and Zen practitioner to clarify the benefits of meditative training. Austin integrates classical Buddhist literature with modern brain research, exploring the horizons of a living, neural Zen. When viewed in the light of today, the timeless wisdom of some Zen masters seems almost to have anticipated recent research in the neurosciences. The keen attentiveness and awareness that we cultivate during meditative practices become the leading edge of our subsequent mental processing. Austin explains how our covert, involuntary functions can make crucial contributions to the subtle ways we learn, intuit, and engage in creative activities. He demonstrates why living Zen means much more than sitting quietly indoors on a cushion, and provides simplified advice that helps guide readers to the most important points.

Mitchell Thomashow is the director of the Second Nature Presidential

James H. Austin, a clinical neurologist, researcher, and Zen practitio-

Fellows Program, which assists colleges and universities in promot-

ner for more than three decades, is Professor Emeritus of Neurology

ing a comprehensive sustainability agenda on campus. From 2006

at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Courtesy

to 2011 he was president of Unity College, Maine, and from 1976 to

Professor of Neurology at the University of Florida College of

2006 he was Chair of the Environmental Studies Department at An-

Medicine. He is the author of Zen and the Brain; Chase, Chance, and

tioch University New England. He is the author of Ecological Identity

Creativity; Zen-Brain Reflections; Selfless Insight; and Meditating

and Bringing the Biosphere Home, both published by the MIT Press.

Selflessly, all published by the MIT Press.

“Provide[s] nuanced insight into how we might undertake the journey in an accessible and engaging way.” —Jon Emmett, LSE Review of Books

“Zen-Brain Horizons advances our understanding of creativity and happiness. What more can we ask of the good doctor?” —Matt Sutherland, ForeWord Reviews

March | 6 x 9, 248 pp.

March | 5 3/8 x 8, 296 pp. | 5 color plates, 15 illus.

$22.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-52900-6

$20.95T/£14.95 paper 978-0-262-52883-2

cloth 2014 978-0-262-02711-3

cloth 2014 978-0-262-02756-4

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

now in paper

economics

ne w media | digital humanities

Keynes

Digital_Humanities

Useful Economics for the World Economy

Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp

Peter Temin and David Vines As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an accessible introduction to Keynesian ideas that connects Keynes’s insights to today’s global economy and offers readers a way to understand current policy debates. They survey economic thinking before Keynes and explain how difficult it was for Keynes to escape from conventional wisdom. They also set out the Keynesian analysis of a closed economy and expand the analysis to the international economy, using a few simple graphs to present Keynes’s formal analyses in an accessible way. Finally, they discuss problems of today’s world economy, showcasing the usefulness of a simple Keynesian approach to current economic policy choices. Keynesian ideas, they argue, can lay the basis for a return to economic growth. Peter Temin, Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, is the author of Lessons from the Great Depression (MIT Press) and other books. David Vines, Professor of Economics and Fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford, is a joint editor of a number of books on global economic governance. Temin and Vines are coauthors of The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It. “Highly relevant for today’s world.” —Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century March | 6 x 9, 136 pp. | 15 illus. $20.95T/£14.95 paper 978-0-262-52899-3 cloth 2014 978-0-262-02831-8

Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question “What is digital humanities?,” it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry—including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation—to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship. Anne Burdick is Department Chair of Graduate Media Design at Art Center College of Design and design editor of electronicbookreview.com. Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies at UCLA in the Department of Information Studies and a book artist and visual poet. Peter Lunenfeld is Professor of Design Media Arts at UCLA. Todd Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA, where he also chairs the Program in Digital Humanities. Jeffrey Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, where he is Professor of Romance Literatures, teaches at the Graduate School of Design, and serves as faculty codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “Digital_Humanities is, to put it clearly from the very start, a landmark publication that may prove as significant and powerful as Jean-François Lyotard’s Postmodern Condition (1979).” —Jan Baetens, Image&Narrative March | 7 x 9, 152 pp. $22.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-52886-3 cloth 2012 978-0-262-01847-0

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

now in paper

art

photog raphy

What Was Contemporary Art?

Why Photography Matters

Richard Meyer

Jerry L. Thompson

Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works of art were once contemporary. In What Was Contemporary Art? Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, and gives the contemporary its own art history. By exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early twentieth-century art and visual culture, Meyer retrieves moments in the history of once-current art and redefines “the contemporary” as a condition of being alive to and alongside other moments, artists, and objects. A generous selection of images, many in color—from works of fine art to museum brochures and magazine covers—support and extend Meyer’s narrative. These works were contemporary to their own moment. Now, in Meyer’s account, they become contemporary to ours as well.

Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works—not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and lucid meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. He constructs an argument that moves with natural logic from Thomas Pynchon (and why we read him for his vision and not his command of miscellaneous facts) to Jonathan Swift to Plato to Emily Dickinson (who wrote “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”) to detailed readings of photographs by Eugène Atget, Garry Winogrand, Marcia Due, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank. Forcefully and persuasively, he argues for photography as a medium whose business is not constructing fantasies pleasing to the eye or imagination, but describing the world in the toughest and deepest way.

Richard Meyer is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History

1973 to Evans’s death in 1975. He is the author of The Last Years of

at Stanford University. He is the author of Outlaw Representation:

Walker Evans and Truth and Photography.

Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art and Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles. “A vivid narrative and a timely call to pause a moment in our pursuit of the now and, as [Meyer] puts it, to ‘take a deep breath, and consider histories prior to our own’.” —Robert Barry, Frieze “This is a wonderfully readable book, with a natural conversational tone and well-chosen imagery. Its strong contribution to 20th century art history and historiography will make this volume of great use to students and scholars of 20th- and even 21st-century art and culture.” —M.R. Freeman, CHOICE March | 7 x 9, 376 pp. | 36 color illus., 81 black & white illus. $30.95T/£21.95 paper 978-0-262-52893-1 cloth 2013 978-0-262-13508-5

Jerry L. Thompson is a working photographer who also writes about photography. He worked as Walker Evans’s principal assistant from

“‘It’s a generous medium, photography,’ Lee Friedlander has remarked, referring to [the] capacity of the camera to take in even more than the photographer realizes. Reading Thompson, one understands better . . . just how generous.” —Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe “This little gem of a book calls for a quiet and personal art that explores and exploits (in [Walker] Evans’s words) ‘swift chance, disarray, wonder, and experiment.’” —David Collard, Times Literary Supplement March | 5 3/8 x 8, 104 pp. | 7 illus. $13.95T/£9.95 paper 978-0-262-52901-3 cloth 2013 978-0-262-01928-6

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

now in paper

architecture

art | film

Bleak Houses

Looking for Bruce Conner

Disappointment and Failure in Architecture

Kevin Hatch

Timothy Brittain-Catlin The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the underside of architecture, the stories of losers and unfulfillment often ignored by an architectural criticism that values novelty, fame, and virility over fallibility and rejection. As architectural criticism promotes increasingly narrow values, dismissing certain styles wholesale and subjecting buildings to a Victorian litmus test of “real” versus “fake,” Brittain-Catlin explains the effect this superficial criticality has had not only on architectural discourse but on the quality of buildings. The fact that most buildings receive no critical scrutiny at all has resulted in vast stretches of ugly modern housing and a pervasive public illiteracy about architecture. Timothy Brittain-Catlin is a Reader at Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent. His writing has appeared in The World of Interiors,

In a career that spanned five decades, most of them spent in San Francisco, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style. Whether making foundfootage films, hallucinatory ink-blot graphics, enigmatic collages, or assemblages from castoffs, Conner took up genres as quickly as he abandoned them. In this first book-length study of Conner’s enormously influential but insufficiently understood career, Kevin Hatch explores Conner’s work as well as his position on the geographical, cultural, and critical margins. Generously illustrated with many color images of Conner’s works, Looking for Bruce Conner proceeds in roughly chronological fashion, from Conner’s notorious assemblages (Black Dahlia and Ratbastard among them) through his experimental films (populated by images from what Conner called “the tremendous, fantastic movies going in my head from all the scenes I’d seen”), his little-known graphic work, and his collage and inkblot drawings.

Architectural Review, and many other publications.

Kevin Hatch is Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton

“This is one of the most intriguing, original, and gently provocative books on the meaning of architecture for some while.” —Jonathon Glancey, Architecture Review

“Looking for Bruce Conner is full of close analysis and wonderful material.” —J. Hoberman, ArtInfo

“There are few books I can think of that describe the emotional engagement with architecture with such acuity. And despite the subject, Bleak Houses is anything but a bleak read.” —Richard William, Times Higher Education March | 6 x 9, 192 pp. | 33 illus. $22.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-52885-6 cloth 2014 978-0-262-02669-7

University.

“Hatch looks beyond the surface, searching for deeper meanings tied to Conner’s provocation, his biography and anxieties—nuclear dread, for one—and his need to create works that are not static, but that enable the viewer to actively participate in them. Hatch’s book compellingly meets this challenge.” —Patric Friel, Afterimage March | 7 x 9, 360 pp. | 53 color illus., 51 black & white illus. $30.95T/£21.95 paper 978-0-262-52889-4 cloth 2012 978-0-262-01681-0 An October Book

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

neuroscience

Networks of the Brain Olaf Sporns Over the last decade, the study of complex networks has expanded across diverse scientific fields. Increasingly, science is concerned with the structure, behavior, and evolution of complex systems ranging from cells to ecosystems. In Networks of the Brain, Olaf Sporns describes how the integrative nature of brain function can be illuminated from a complex network perspective. Highlighting the many emerging points of contact between neuroscience and network science, the book serves to introduce network theory to neuroscientists and neuroscience to those working on theoretical network models. Sporns emphasizes how networks connect levels of organization in the brain and how they link structure to function, offering an informal and nonmathematical treatment of the subject. Networks of the Brain provides a synthesis of the sciences of complex networks and the brain that will be an essential foundation for future research. Olaf Sporns is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, Codirector of the Indiana University Network Science Institute, a member of the programs in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and Head of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

“Sporns provides a comprehensive, tour-de-force overview of the cutting edge of the application of network science to neuroscience. This is a book that everyone with an interest in brain function should read.” —Mark Daley and Jody C. Culham, Canadian Psychology

An integrative overview of network approaches to neuroscience explores the origins of brain complexity and the link between brain structure and function.

“Networks of the Brain is a unique resource. It defines the nature and scope of one of the newest and most exciting research programs in cognitive neuroscience.” —Matteo Colombo, Minds & Machines

March 7 x 9, 424 pp. 15 color plates, 100 black & white illus.

at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Discovering the Human Connectome.

Honorable Mention, 2010 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Biomedicine and Neuroscience category

$38.00S/£26.95 paper 978-0-262-52898-6 cloth 2010 978-0-262-01469-4

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

neuroscience

Discovering the Human Connectome Olaf Sporns Crucial to understanding how the brain works is connectivity, and the centerpiece of brain connectivity is the connectome, a comprehensive description of how neurons and brain regions are connected. In this book, Olaf Sporns surveys current efforts to chart these connections—to map the human connectome. He argues that the nascent field of connectomics has already begun to influence the way many neuroscientists collect, analyze, and think about their data. Moreover, the idea of mapping the connections of the human brain in their entirety has captured the imaginations of researchers across several disciplines including human cognition, brain and mental disorders, and complex systems and networks. Discovering the Human Connectome offers the first comprehensive overview of current empirical and computational approaches in this rapidly developing field. Olaf Sporns is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, Codirector of the Indiana University Network Science Institute, a member of the programs in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and Head of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

A pioneer in the field outlines new empirical and computational approaches to mapping the neural connections of the human brain. March 7 x 9, 248 pp. 17 color plates, 55 black & white illus. $34.00S/£23.95 paper 978-0-262-52897-9 cloth 2012 978-0-262-01790-9

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Networks of the Brain. “Anybody curious about the cutting edge of cognitive science will enjoy Sporns’s book. Discovering the Human Connectome is clear, wide-ranging, intellectually serious, and often thought-provoking.” —Matteo Colombo, Minds & Machines “Discovering the Human Connectome is an excellent introductory text . . . that sheds light on the basic conceptualization of the connectome. It is a well written and logical text that can provide a foundation for further reading about the Human Connectome Project.” —Robert Perna and Ashlee Loughan, PsycCritiques Honorable Mention, 2012 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Biomedicine and Neuroscience category

now in paper

cognitive science | archaeolog y

human-computer interaction | social science

How Things Shape the Mind A Theory of Material Engagement

Building Successful Online Communities

Lambros Malafouris

Evidence-Based Social Design

foreword by Colin Renfrew

Robert E. Kraut and Paul Resnick

An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in the head.” This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and material culture, posing major challenges for philosophy, cognitive science, archaeology, and anthropology. In How Things Shape the Mind, Lambros Malafouris proposes a cross-disciplinary analytical framework for investigating the ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body. Using a variety of examples and case studies, he considers how those ways might have changed from earliest prehistory to the present. Malafouris’s Material Engagement Theory definitively adds materiality—the world of things, artifacts, and material signs—into the cognitive equation. His account not only questions conventional intuitions about the boundaries and location of the human mind but also suggests that we rethink classical archaeological assumptions about human cognitive evolution. Lambros Malafouris is Johnson Research Fellow in Creativity, Cognition, and Material Culture at Keble College and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. “How Things Shape the Mind is a rich, thought-provoking and ambitious book.” —Niels Johannsen and Karin Johannesen, Ethos

with Sara Kiesler, Moira Burke, Yan Chen, Niki Kittur, Joseph Konstan, Yuqing Ren, and John Riedl Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never attracted enough members to be viable. This book offers lessons from theory and empirical research in the social sciences that can help improve the design of online communities. The authors draw on the literature in psychology, economics, and other social sciences, as well as their own research, translating general findings into useful design claims. They explain, for example, how to encourage information contributions based on the theory of public goods, and how to build members’ commitment based on theories of interpersonal bond formation. For each design claim, they offer supporting evidence from theory, experiments, or observational studies. Robert E. Kraut is Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human–Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Paul Resnick is the Michael D Cohen Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan.

“How Things Shape the Mind is an important book. . . . it may well provide a means for making true progress in the archaeology of mind.” —Thomas Wynn, Current Anthropology

“A must-have resource for anyone thinking of deploying successful online communities.” —F. Randall Farmer, online communities pioneer, and coauthor of Building Web Reputation Systems

March | 6 x 9, 304 pp. | 31 illus.

March | 7 x 9, 328 pp. | 62 illus.

$31.00S/£21.95 paper 978-0-262-52892-4

$31.00S/£21.95 paper 978-0-262-52891-7

cloth 2013 978-0-262-01919-4

cloth 2011 978-0-262-01657-5

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

now in paper

art | ne w media

linguistics | cognitive neuroscience

Walking and Mapping

Birdsong, Speech, and Language

Artists as Cartographers

Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain

Karen O’Rourke

edited by Johan J. Bolhuis and Martin Everaert

From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with a resurgence of interest in walking as an art form. In Walking and Mapping, Karen O’Rourke explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. She offers close readings of these projects—many of which she was able to experience firsthand—and situates them in relation to landmark works from the past half-century. Together, they form a new entity, a dynamic whole greater than the sum of its parts. By alternating close study of selected projects with a broader view of their place in a bigger picture, Walking and Mapping itself maps a complex phenomenon. Karen O’Rourke is an artist and Professor of Digital Art at Jean Monnet University Saint-Etienne, France. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, the United States, and South America. “A valuable guidebook for what the ‘Action Painters’ of the 1950s may have done if they had abandoned their lofts and creatively walked the actual Terra Incognita.” —Joel Weishaus, Arts “At once searching, lucid and engaged, Walking and Mapping is a remarkable primer for the study of an important and increasingly prominent cultural overlap.” —Simon Ferdinand, Cartographica March | 7 x 9, 352 pp. | 115 illus. $31.00S/£21.95 paper 978-0-262-52895-5 cloth 2013 978-0-262-01850-0 A Leonardo Book

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

foreword by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. After outlining the basic issues involved in the study of both language and evolution, the contributors compare birdsong and language in terms of acquisition, recursion, and core structural properties, and then examine the neurobiology of song and speech, genomic factors, and the emergence and evolution of language. Johan J. Bolhuis is Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at Utrecht University and Martin Everaert is Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University. “Birdsong, Speech, and Language is recommended not only to anyone who is interested in the foundations of birdsong and its relation to human language and speech, but also to anyone who wants to take a look at where biolinguistics is hopefully heading.” —Pedro Tiago Martins, Biolinguistics “The authors of the different chapters are the world’s leading experts on the topics they discuss, and their chapters contribute information, of which much is totally new and of obvious importance.” —Morris Halle, Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, MIT March | 7 x 9, 560 pp. | 93 illus. $34.00S/£23.95 paper 978-0-262-52884-9 cloth 2013 978-0-262-01860-9

now in paper

computer science | software engineering

computer science

Software Abstractions

Information Retrieval

Logic, Language, and Analysis

Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

Revised Edition

Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, and Gordon V. Cormack

Daniel Jackson In Software Abstractions Daniel Jackson introduces an approach to software design that draws on traditional formal methods but exploits automated tools to find flaws as early as possible. This approach—which Jackson calls “lightweight formal methods” or “agile modeling”—takes from formal specification the idea of a precise and expressive notation based on a tiny core of simple and robust concepts but replaces conventional analysis based on theorem proving with a fully automated analysis that gives designers immediate feedback. Jackson has developed Alloy, a language that captures the essence of software abstractions simply and succinctly, using a minimal toolkit of mathematical notions. This revised edition updates the text, examples, and appendixes to be fully compatible with Alloy 4. Daniel Jackson is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and leads the Software Design Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. “The book and its associated Web site of tutorials, examples, models, and downloads (including Alloy 4 itself, of course) will furnish designers with a rigorous and expressive but agile way of effecting that most important of features: correctness. It has my highest recommendation.” —George Hacken, Computing Reviews

foreword by Amit Singhal Information retrieval is the foundation for modern search engines. This textbook offers an introduction to the core topics underlying modern search technologies, including algorithms, data structures, indexing, retrieval, and evaluation. The emphasis is on implementation and experimentation; each chapter includes exercises and suggestions for student projects. Wumpus— a multiuser open-source information retrieval system developed by one of the authors and available online—provides model implementations and a basis for student work. The modular structure of the book allows instructors to use it in a variety of graduate-level courses, including courses taught from a database systems perspective, traditional information retrieval courses with a focus on IR theory, and courses covering the basics of Web retrieval. In addition to its classroom use, Information Retrieval will be a valuable reference for professionals in computer science, computer engineering, and software engineering. Stefan Büttcher is a Software Engineer at Google. Charles L. A. Clarke and Gordon V. Cormack are Professors of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

“I highly recommend Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis to anyone with an interest in modeling and analyzing software. . . . Systems like Alloy should be in the toolbox of all software designers and developers, so such a comprehensive book on this topic is very welcome.” —Anthony M. Sloane, Journal of Functional Programming

“A good addition to the IR literature that scholars and students of IR systems should take seriously.” —Computing Reviews

March | 6 x 9, 376 pp. | 58 illus.

Honorable Mention, 2010 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Computing and Information Sciences category

$34.00S/£23.95 paper 978-0-262-52890-0 cloth 2012 978-0-262-01715-2

March | 8 x 9, 632 pp. | 127 illus. $42.00S/£28.95 paper 978-0-262-52887-0 cloth 2010 978-0-262-02651-2

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

now in paper

engineering | management

cognitive neuroscience

Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications

Neuroscience of Creativity

Steven D. Eppinger and Tyson R. Browning Design structure matrix (DSM) is a straightforward and flexible modeling technique that can be used for designing, developing, and managing complex systems. DSM offers network modeling tools that represent the elements of a system and their interactions, thereby highlighting the system’s architecture (or designed structure). Its advantages include compact format, visual nature, intuitive representation, powerful analytical capacity, and flexibility. Used primarily so far in the area of engineering management, DSM is increasingly being applied to complex issues in health care management, financial systems, public policy, natural sciences, and social systems. This book offers a clear and concise explanation of DSM methods for practitioners and researchers. Steven D. Eppinger is Professor of Management Science and Innovation at MIT Sloan School. He holds the General Motors Leader for Global Operations Chair and has a joint appointment in MIT’s Engineering Systems Division. He is Codirector of MIT’s System Design and Management Program. Tyson R. Browning is Professor of Operations Management at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University. His background includes industry experience with Lockheed Martin Corporation and several other organizations. “As an industrial practitioner of DSM methods since 1995, I have seen how powerful these models can be for visualization and management of complex engineering challenges. . . . I strongly recommend this book.” —H. Mike Stowe, Senior Process Engineer, The Boeing Company; Leader, DSM Industry Special Interest Group (SIG)

edited by Oshin Vartanian, Adam S. Bristol, and James C. Kaufman This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems neuroscience and neuroimaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity. The treatment is both broad and in depth, offering a range of neuroscientific perspectives with detailed coverage by experts in each area. The contributors discuss such issues as the heritability of creativity; creativity in patients with brain damage, neurodegenerative conditions, and mental illness; clinical interventions and the relationship between psychopathology and creativity; neuroimaging studies of intelligence and creativity; the neuroscientific basis of creativity-enhancing methodologies; and the information-processing challenges of viewing visual art. Oshin Vartanian is Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Adam S. Bristol is Portfolio Manager at Aquilo Capital Management, a life sciences investment fund based in San Francisco. James C. Kaufman is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Contributors Baptiste Barbot, Mathias Benedek, David Q. Beversdorf, Aaron P. Blaisdell, Margaret A. Boden, Dorret I. Boomsma, Adam S. Bristol, Shelley Carson, Marleen H. M. de Moor, Andreas Fink, Liane Gabora, Dennis Garlick, Elena L. Grigorenko, Richard J. Haier, Rex E. Jung, James C. Kaufman, Helmut Leder, Kenneth J. Leising, Bruce L. Miller, Apara Ranjan, Mark P. Roeling, W. David Stahlman, Mei Tan, Pablo P. L. Tinio, Oshin Vartanian, Indre V. Viskontas, Dahlia W. Zaidel

March | 8 x 9, 352 pp. | 178 color illus. $48.00S/£33.95 paper 978-0-262-52888-7 cloth 2012 978-0-262-01752-7

“A valuable overview of the major issues in this emerging field.” —David Ludden, PsycCRITIQUES March | 6 x 9, 330 pp. | 29 illus.

Engineering Systems series

$37.00S/£25.95 paper 978-0-262-52902-0

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

cloth 2013 978-0-262-01958-3

Essential Paperbacks from the MIT Press

$26.95T/£18.95 paper 978-0-262-53107-8

$24.95T/£17.95 paper 978-0-262-68150-6

$37.95T/£26.95 paper 978-0-262-61033-9

$27.95T/£19.95 paper 978-0-262-72006-9

$23.50S/£16.95 paper 978-0-262-66200-0

$26.95T/£18.95 paper 978-0-262-53255-6

$19.95T/£13.95 paper 978-0-262-52713-2

$17.95T/£12.95 paper 978-0-262-61147-3

$27.95T/£19.95 paper 978-0-262-61106-0

$22.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-74025-8

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-51699-0

$21.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-61197-8

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

Essential Paperbacks from the MIT Press

$21.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-56003-0

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-1-58435-034-7 Distributed for Semiotext(e)

$32.95T/£22.95 paper 978-0-262-73154-6

$17.95T/£12.95 paper 978-0-262-02630-7

$24.95T/£17.95 paper 978-0-262-51313-5

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52520-6

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52548-0

$17.95T/£12.95 paper 978-0-262-52529-9

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

$32.95T/£22.95 paper 978-0-262-53203-7

$21.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-942299-79-3 Distributed for Zone Books

$12.95T/£8.95 paper 978-1-58435-080-4 Distributed for Semiotext(e)

$24.95T/£17.95 paper 978-0-942299-32-8 Distributed for Zone Books

journals

arts and humanities

ARTMargins

Design Issues

Sven Spieker, executive editor Karen Benezra, Octavian Eșanu, Anthony Gardner, Angela Harutyunyan, editors

Bruce Brown, Richard Buchanan, Carl DiSalvo, Dennis P. Doordan, and Victor Margolin, editors

ARTMargins publishes scholarly articles and essays about contemporary art, politics, media, architecture, and critical theory. The journal is devoted to art practices and visual culture in the emerging global margins, from North Africa and the Middle East to the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and Australasia. Triannual, ISSN 2162-2574 | February/June/October 128 pp. per issue | 6 x 9, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/artmargins

The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as human-computer interface, service design, design for development, and product design methodology. Quarterly, ISSN 0747-9360 | Winter/Spring/Summer/Autumn 112 pp. per issue | 7 x 10, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/di

October

Dædalus

Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Devin Fore, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, and Malcolm Turvey, editors

Phyllis S. Bendell, managing editor

At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation. Quarterly, ISSN 0162-2870 | Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall 160 pp. per issue | 7 x 9, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/october

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art Bonnie Marranca, editor PAJ explores innovative work in theatre, performance art, dance, video, writing, technology, sound, and music, bringing together all live arts in thoughtful cultural dialogue.

Drawing on some of the nation’s foremost scholars in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences, Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, presents new perspectives and multidisciplinary research on topics central to American life. Quarterly, ISSN 0011-5266 | Winter/ Spring/Summer/Fall 144 pp. per issue | 7 x 10 http://mitpressjournals.org/daedalus

TDR/The Drama Review Richard Schechner, editor TDR traces the broad spectrum of performances—studying performances in their aesthetic, social, economic, and political contexts. Long known as the basic resource for current scholarship in performance studies, TDR continues to be a lively forum. Quarterly, ISSN 1054-2043 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter 192 pp. per issue | 7 x 10, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/tdr

Triannual, ISSN 1520-281X January/May/September 128 pp. per issue | 7 x 10, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/paj

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

journals

arts and humanities

African Arts Marla C. Berns, Patrick A. Polk, Allen F. Roberts, and Mary Nooter Roberts, editors African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue. Quarterly, ISSN 0001-9933 | Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter 88-100 pp. per issue | 8 1/2 x 11, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/aa Published by the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA, and distributed by the MIT Press

Grey Room Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Lucia Allais, Eric C.H. de Bruyn, Noam M. Elcott, Byron Hamann, John Harwood, Matthew C. Hunter, editors Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. Publishing some of the most interesting and original work within these disciplines, Grey Room has positioned itself at the forefront of the most current aesthetic and critical debates. Quarterly, ISSN 1526-3819 | Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall 128 pp. per issue | 6 3/4 x 9 5/8, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/grey

Leonardo/ Leonardo Music Journal Roger F. Malina, executive editor Nicolas Collins, editor-in-chief Leonardo is the leading international journal in the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music. The companion annual journal, Leonardo Music Journal (including Annual Audio Series), features the latest in music, multimedia art, sound science, and technology. Six issues per year, ISSN 0024-094X February/April/June/August/October/December 112 pp. per issue | 8 1/2 x 11, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/leon

Computer Music Journal Douglas Keislar, editor For nearly four decades, Computer Music Journal has been the leading publication about computer music, concentrating fully on digital sound technology and all musical applications of computers. It is an essential resource for musicians, composers, scientists, engineers, computer enthusiasts, and anyone exploring the wonders of computer-generated sound. Quarterly, ISSN 0148-9267 | Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter 128 pp. per issue | 8 1/2 x 11, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/cmj

The New England Quarterly Jonathan M. Chu, editor For more than eighty years, The New England Quarterly has published the best that has been written on New England’s cultural, literary, political, and social history. Contributions cover a range of time periods, from before European colonization to the present, and any subject germane to New England’s history. Quarterly, ISSN 0028-4866 | March/June/ September/December 192 pp. per issue | 6 x 9 http://mitpressjournals.org/neq

100

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

journals

political science| inter national affairs | histor y

Global Environmental Politics

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Kate Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill and Stacy D. VanDeveer, editors

Robert I. Rotberg, Theodore K. Rabb, and Reed Ueda, editors

Global Environmental Politics examines the relationship between global political forces and environmental change.

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History features substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews that relate historical study to other scholarly disciplines such as economics and demography.

Quarterly, ISSN 1526-3800 | February/ May/August/November 164 pp. per issue | 6 x 9 http://mitpressjournals.org/gep

International Security Steven E. Miller, editor-in-chief Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Owen R. CotĂŠ Jr., editors International Security publishes lucid, well-documented essays on the full range of contemporary security issues, including the growing importance of environmental, demographic, and humanitarian issues, and the rise of global terrorist networks. Quarterly, ISSN 0162-2889 | Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring 208 pp. per issue | 6 3/4 x 10 http://mitpressjournals.org/is Published by the MIT Press for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Journal of Cold War Studies Mark Kramer, editor The Journal of Cold War Studies features peer-reviewed articles based on archival research in the former Communist world and in Western countries. Articles draw on declassified materials and new memoirs to illuminate and raise questions about numerous historical and theoretical concerns regarding deterrence, diplomacy, foreign policy conduct, and international relations. Quarterly, ISSN 1520-3972 | Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall 224 pp. per issue | 6 x 9 http://mitpressjournals.org/jcws Published by the MIT Press for the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies

Quarterly, ISSN 0022-1953 | Summer/Autumn/Winter/Spring 192 pp. per issue | 5 3/4 x 9 http://mitpressjournals.org/jih

science and technolog y coming soon!

Computational Psychiatry Peter Dayan and Read Montague, editors

Computational Psychiatry will publish original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational, and statistical approaches to mental function and dysfunction. Topics include brain modeling over multiple scales and levels of analysis, and the use of these models to understand psychiatric dysfunction, its remediation, and the sustenance of healthy cognition through the lifespan. The journal also has a special interest in computational issues pertaining to related areas such as law and education. Computational Psychiatry will be an Open Access journal.

economics

American Journal of Health Economics Frank Sloan, editor-in-chief The American Journal of Health Economics (AJHE) provides a forum for the in-depth analysis of institutional health care systems and individual health behaviors. Subjects of interest include the impact of the Affordable Care Act, pharmaceutical regulation, the rise of obesity, the influence of aging populations, and much more. The journal is published by the MIT Press for the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon). Quarterly, ISSN 2332-3493 | Winter/Spring/ Summer/Fall 144 pp. per issue | 6 x 9 http://mitpressjournals.org/ajhe mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

101

tHe digitAL mit pRess

MITCogNet From the MIT Press

The MIT Press

Visit our website! Our improved site allows us to interact with readers in a more meaningful way, with social media integration, a new user registration and profile system, enhanced e-commerce, and improved search functionality. Be part of our Facebook community at facebook.com/mitpress.

Follow us on twitter: join other mit press fans who want to learn more about our authors, our books, and other interesting matters, all in 140 characters or less. Hear directly from our authors through our Author podcasts.

Read our press blog or sign up to receive e-mail alerts or Rss feeds to get news about mit press books.

EBOOKS AT THE MIT PRESS

visit the mit press e-books store, where you can browse and purchase full-text, online access to recent mit press titles. the e-books sold on this site are fully searchable and can be stored on your personal digital bookshelf.

102

spRiNg 2016 | mitpRess.mit.edU

Authoritative and unrivaled, MIT CogNet is the essential research tool for scholars in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Since its inception in 2000, MIT CogNet has become an indispensable resource for those interested in cutting-edge primary research across the range of fields concerned with the nature of the human mind. 2015 marks the launch of a new, enhanced MIT CogNet. FeATUreS INCLUde: • More that 650 MIT Press books, 12 MIT Press reference works (recent addition: The Cognitive Neurosciences, fifth edition), and 6 MIT Press journals, with new content added regularly • DRM-free book, reference, and journal content • MARC records compiled by the MIT Libraries • COUNTER4 Usage reporting • New MITECS (The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences)based taxonomy for better browsing • Google Scholar and PubMed LinkOut indexing • Citation tools • Responsive web design for an optimal viewing experience on any device

cognet.mit.edu

ORdeR iNFORmAtiON | BOOK divisiON

NOrTH AMerICAN BOOKSeLLerS Orders should be sent to: the mit press c/o triLiteral LLc 100 maple Ridge drive cumberland, Ri 02864-1769 UsA For Orders and Customer Service: tel: 800 405 1619 | Fax: 800 406 9145 e-mail Orders:

Individuals: Books from the mit press are available at fine booksellers worldwide. individuals who wish to order directly from the publisher may do so through our website or by calling our toll-free number. The MIT Press Guarantee: if for any reason you are not satisfied with a book you receive, return it to us within 10 days and we will promptly refund your payment. examination copies are available at the discretion of the MIT Press to qualified instructors of appropriate courses. please address inquiries to:

customer.care@triliteral.org

michelle pullano textbook manager tel: 617 253 3620 | Fax: 617 253 1709 e-mail: mitpress_textbooks@mit.edu

Online:

review Copy requests:

http://mitpress.mit.edu

please submit review copy requests on the letterhead of the publication to the publicity department.

orders@triliteral.org e-mail Customer Service:

For inquiries regarding sales representation in the United States and Canada, contact: david goldberg sales manager the mit press One Rogers street cambridge, mA 02142-1209 UsA tel: 617 253 8838 | Fax: 617 253 1709 e-mail: mitpress_sales@mit.edu For inquiries regarding bulk purchases in the United States, contact: marianne stepanian sales coordinator tel: 617 258 0584 | Fax: 617 253 1709 e-mail: mstep@mit.edu

Fax: 617 253 1709 e-mail: mitpress-publicity@mit.edu Subsidiary and International rights: For information on subsidiary and international rights, please contact: Bill smith director, intellectual property and Licensing One Rogers street cambridge, mA 02142-1209 UsA tel: 617 253 0629 | Fax: 617 253 1709 smithwmj@mit.edu For permissions, please contact: pam Quick e-mail: quik@mit.edu

return Policy:

Publication dates:

the return policy of our distribution center is: returned books must be in resalable condition. No permission is required, but invoice information must be provided or a penalty discount will be used. No returns accepted 18 months from invoice date.

Books will be shipped 2 to 4 weeks prior to publication date listed in catalog.

US booksellers may send returns to: mit press Returns c/o triLiteral LLc 100 maple Ridge drive cumberland, Ri 02864-1769 UsA Canadian booksellers may send returns to:

discount Codes: t: trade discount s: short discount X: text discount prices are subject to change without notice. contact the sales department at the mit press for discount schedules. the mit press Agency plan offers special discounts to booksellers who stock scholarly and professional books. For details, contact the sales manager, tel: 617 253 8838, Fax: 617 253 1709, e-mail: mitpress_sales@mit.edu

triLiteral c/o Apc 45 mural street Richmond Hill ON L48 1J4 canada

mitpRess.mit.edU | spRiNg 2016

103

ORDER INFORMATION | Book Division

INTERNATIONAL SALES AND PROMOTION

REPRESENTATION AND DISTRIBUTION

U.S. Office: Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Central America, Mexico, South America

Africa: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia: Representation

Address for information: Jessica Lawrence-Hurt International Sales Manager The MIT Press One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 USA Tel: 617 258 0582 | Fax: 617 253 1709 e-mail: jclh@mit.edu Address for orders: The MIT Press c/o Triliteral LLC 100 Maple Ridge Drive Cumberland, RI 02864-1769 USA Tel: 401 531 2800 | Fax: 401 531 2802 e-mail: orders@triliteral.org European Sales Office: United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Eire, India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Israel, Africa Andrew Brewer, Managing Director University Press Group 57 Cobnar Road, Sheffield, S8 8QA, United Kingdom Tel: 44 0 114 274 0129 | Mobile: 44 0 7967 031856 e-mail: andrew.brewer@virgin.net Address for information: Lois Edwards, Business Manager University Press Group LEC1 New Era Estate Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis West Sussex, PO22 9NQ, United Kingdom Tel: 44 0 1243 842165 | Fax: 44 0 1243 842167 e-mail: lois@upguk.com Address for orders: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. European Distribution Centre New Era Estate Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis West Sussex, PO22 9NQ, United Kingdom Overseas orders: Tel: 44 1243 843294 Dial-free orders in UK only: Tel: 0800 243407 | Fax: 44 0 1243 843296

Tony Moggach (IMA) 14 York Rise London NW5 1ST United Kingdom Tel: 44 0 207 267 8054 | Fax: 44 0 207 485 8462 e-mail: tony.moggach@moggach.demon.co.uk Australia, New Zealand: Representation and Distribution Footprint Books 4/8 Jubilee Avenue Warriewood NSW 2102 Australia Tel: 61 02 9997 3973 | Fax: 61 02 9997 3185 e-mail: info@footprint.com.au www.footprint.com.au Brazil: Representation Renato Reichmann Cranbury International, LLC Sao Paulo - SP Brazil Tel: 55 11 9 8283 0313 e-mail: rrr@erdl.com.br Canada, British Columbia only: Representation Patricia Nelson 3 Cagua Road Santa Fe, NM 87508 USA Tel: 505 466 1327 | Fax: 505 466 1044 e-mail: pnelsonrep@gmail.com Canada, excluding British Columbia: Representation John Eklund 929 N. Astor Street, #2301 Milwaukee, WI 53202 USA Tel: 414 312 2160 | Fax: 414 273 3569 e-mail: jeklundrep@gmail.com Caribbean: Representation John Atkin Cranbury International, LLC 25 Perry Avenue, Suite 11, Norwalk, CT 06850 USA Tel: 203 451 2396 e-mail: jatkin@silverminebooks.com

E-mail Customer Service: customer@wiley.com European Marketing Office: For publicity and promotion inquiries contact: The MIT Press Suite 2, 1 Duchess Street, London, W1W 6AN, United Kingdom Tel: 44 0 207 306 0603 e-mail: info@mitpress.org.uk

104

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

Publication in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Eire, India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Israel, and Africa will be approximately one month later than the date given for each title in the catalog. Prices are subject to change without notice. For information about examination copy requests go to: http://mitpress.mit.edu/services/instructors

ORDER INFORMATION | Book Division

Central America, Mexico, South America: Representation

India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka: Representation

Jose Rios Cranbury International, LLC Apartado Postal 370A, Guatemala City, Guatemala Tel: 503 7180 1049 e-mail: joserios@cranburyinternational.com

S. Janakiraman Book Marketing Services 2-A, Ramaniyam Building, 216-217, Peters Road Royapettah, Chennai 600 014 India Tel: 91 44 2848 0220 | Fax: 91 44 2848 0222 e-mail: bkmktg@dataone.in www.bookmarketing.org

China: Representation Wei Zhao Everest Intl Publishing Services No. 2 Xibane Dongli Chaoyang District Beijing 100028 Tel: 86 10 5130 1051 e-mail: wzbooks@163.com wzbooks@163.com Europe: Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Russia: Representation Dominique Bartshukoff University Press Group 2 Place dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Anvers Paris, 75009, France Tel/Fax: 33 1 44 63 02 41 | Mobile: 33 6 63 26 37 47 e-mail: dsbartshukoff@gmail.com Europe: France, Belgium, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Italy, Poland: Representation

Japan: Representation Akiko Iwamoto and Gilles Fauveau Rockbook Inc. 2-3-25, 9F1, Kudanminami, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102-00744 Japan Tel: 81 3 3264 0144 e-mail: aiwamoto@rockbook.net gfauveau@rockbook.net Middle East: Algeria, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey: Representation Claire de Gruchy, Avicenna Partnership Ltd. P.O. Box 501, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 9JL United Kingdom Tel: 44 0 7771 887843 | Fax: 44 0 1865 882966 e-mail: claire_degruchy@yahoo.co.uk

Peter Jacques University Press Group 278 Manchester Road, Isle of Dogs London, E14 3HW United Kingdom Tel: 44 0 207 515 1011 e-mail: peter@jjacques.demon.co.uk

Middle East: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Yemen: Representation

Europe: UK and Eire: Sales Manager

Pakistan: Representation

Ben Mitchell University Press Group 62 Fairford House, Kennington Lane London, SE11 4HR United Kingdom Tel: 44 0 207 735 7455 | Mobile: 44 0 7766 913593 e-mail: ben.mitchell.upg@gmail.com

Saleem Malik, World Press 27/A Al-Firdous Ave., Faiz Road Muslim Town Lahore 54600 Pakistan Tel: 0300 401 2652 e-mail: worldpress@gmail.com

Hong Kong: Representation

David Rivera Cranbury International, LLC Tel: 787 287 2029 | Fax: 787 764 3817 e-mail: drivera@cranburyinternational.com

Jane Lam and Nick Woon Aromix Books Company Ltd. Unit 7, 8/F, Block B, Hoi Luen Industrial Centre 55, Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong Hong Kong Tel: 852 2749 1288 | Fax: 852 2749 0068 e-mail: jane@aromix.cn, nick@aromix.cn www.aromix.com

Bill Kennedy, Avicenna Partnership Ltd. P.O. Box 501, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 9JL United Kingdom Tel: 44 0 7802 244 457 | Fax: 44 1387 247375 e-mail: bill.kennedy@btinternet.com

Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic: Representation

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

105

ORDER INFORMATION | Book Division

SE Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam: Representation Ian Pringle, APD Singapore PTE LTD 52 Genting Lane #06-05 Ruby Land Complex 1 Singapore 349560 Tel: 65 6749 3551 | Fax: 65 6749 3552 e-mail: ian@apdsing.com www.apdsing.com South Korea: Representation Se-Yung Jun and Min-Hwa Yoo ICK (Information and Culture Korea) 49, Donggyo-Ro, 13-Gil, Mapo-Gu Seoul South Korea 03997 Tel: 82 2 3141 4791 | Fax: 82 2 3141 7733 e-mail: cs.ick@ick.co.kr Taiwan: Representation Chiafeng Peng BK Norton 5F, 60, Roosevelt Rd. Sec. 4 Taipei 100 Taiwan Tel: 886 2 6632 0088 | Fax: 886 2 6632 9772 e-mail: chiafeng@bookman.com.tw Trinidad: Representation Patrice Ammon-Jagdeo Cranbury International, LLC Petit Valley, Trinidad, West Indies Tel: 868 637 9483 e-mail: pammon@cranburyinternational.com

For all other translation rights queries, please contact: Bill Smith  Director of Intellectual Property Licensing The MIT Press  One Rogers Street Cambridge MA 02142-1209 phone: 617-253-0629 smithwmj@mit.edu

106

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

index

Adjusted Margin, Eichhorn 16 Aesthetic Animism, Johnston 83 Allen, The Magazine 33 Ancient Origins of Consciousness, Feinberg 56 Applied State Estimation and Association, Chang 62 Architectural Robotics, Green 27 Arid Lands, Davis 48 Atari to Zelda, Consalvo 55 Atlantic Island, Duvert 43 Attunement, Pérez-Gómez 25 Auctions, Hubbard 19 Austin, Zen-Brain Horizons 87 Balaji, Programming Models for Parallel Computing 63 Balsom, Documentary Across Disciplines 22 Bell, Fighting King Coal 66 Bernhardt, Turing’s Vision 10 Berwick, Why Only Us 5 Between Preservation and Exploitation, Fuentes-George 67 Birdsong, Speech, and Language, Bolhuis 94 Blanchard, Progress and Confusion 9 Bleak Houses, Brittain-Catlin 90 Bolhuis, Birdsong, Speech, and Language 94 Brittain-Catlin, Bleak Houses 90 Brøvig-Hanssen, Digital Signatures 49 Building Successful Online Communities, Kraut 93 Burdick, Digital_Humanities 88 Büttcher, Information Retrieval 95 Chang, Applied State Estimation and Association 62 Chiesa, The Not-Two 23 China’s Next Strategic Advantage, Yip 4 Christiansen, Creating Language 53 Chun, Updating to Remain the Same 54 Civic Media, Gordon 81 Cloud Computing, Ruparelia 20 Cognitive Pluralism, Horst 76 Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality, Macchi 73 Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface, Reinhart 71 Connectedness and Contagion, Scott 58 Consalvo, Atari to Zelda 55 Contiguity Theory, Richards 71 Creating Language, Christiansen 53 Crowdsourced Health, Yom-Tov 7 Cultural Code, Penix-Tadsen 79 Curatorial Conundrum, O’Neill 17 Customer-Centric Marketing, Ravi 70

Dalpiaz, Security Requirements Engineering 61 Damisch, Noah’s Ark 26 Davis, The Arid Lands 48 Debugging Game History, Lowood 80 Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications, Eppinger 96 Digital Signatures, Brøvig-Hanssen 49 Digital_Humanities, Burdick 88 Disclosing the World, Inkpin 76 Discovering the Human Connectome, Sporns 92 Disruption Dilemma, Gans 8 Dividuum, Raunig 40 Documentary Across Disciplines, Balsom 22 Dowling, Vision 72 Dowling, Winning the Reputation Game 13 Drone, Gusterson 14 Duvert, Atlantic Island 43 Early American Daguerreotype, Gillespie 28 Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions, Lewis 65 Education and Social Media, Greenhow 65 Effective Coding with VHDL, Jasinski 62 Eichhorn, Adjusted Margin 16 Engel, The Pragmatic Turn 74 ENIAC in Action, Haigh 64 Eppinger, Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications 96 Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, Montfort 84 Farin, Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931–1941 75 Feinberg, The Ancient Origins of Consciousness 56 Felt Time, Wittmann 15 Fighting King Coal, Bell 66 Fleming, Inventing Atmospheric Science 50 Fuentes-George, Between Preservation and Exploitation 67 Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer, Maizels 29 Gans, The Disruption Dilemma 8 Gazzard, Now the Chips Are Down 64 Gentle Introduction to Effective Computing in Quantitative Research, Paarsch 63 Getsy, Queer 34 Gillespie, The Early American Daguerreotype 28 Glück, Uncertain Reading 41 Gordon, Civic Media 81 Green, Architectural Robotics 27 Greenhow, Education and Social Media 65 Griffin, Water Resource Economics, second edition 69 Gunkel, Of Remixology 78

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

107

index

Gusterson, Drone 14 Haigh, ENIAC in Action 64 Hall, Pirate Philosophy 83 Harrigan, Zones of Control 79 Hatch, Looking for Bruce Conner 90 Herculano-Houzel, The Human Advantage 1 Hermeneutica, Rockwell 81 Hjorth, Screen Ecologies 82 Hodgkinson, Music and the Myth of Wholeness 57 Horst, Cognitive Pluralism 76 How Games Move Us, Isbister 3 How Not to Network a Nation, Peters 52 How Things Shape the Mind, Malafouris 93 Hubbard, Auctions 19 Human Advantage, Herculano-Houzel 1 Inborn Knowledge, McGinn 51 Information Retrieval, Büttcher 95 Inkpin, Disclosing the World 76 Inventing Atmospheric Science, Fleming 50 Isbister, How Games Move Us 3 Jackson, Software Abstractions, revised edition 95 Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time, Kracauer 38 Jasinski, Effective Coding with VHDL 62 Java Precisely, third edition, Sestoft 61 Johnston, Aesthetic Animism 83 Keynes, Temin 88 King, Michael Asher 35 Kracauer, Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time 38 Kraut, Building Successful Online Communities 93 Kruse, Off-Track and Online 82 Lankes, The New Librarianship Field Guide 47 Lanzara, Shifting Practices 60 Latour, Reset Modernity! 6 Lee, Sturtevant 36 Lewis, Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions 65 Living with Complexity, Norman 86 Looking for Bruce Conner, Hatch 90 Lowood, Debugging Game History 80 Macchi, Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality 73 Magazine, Allen 33 Maizels, The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer 29 Malafouris, How Things Shape the Mind 93 Mavroidis, The Regulation of International Trade, Volume 1 68 Mavroidis, The Regulation of International Trade, Volume 2 68 McCarty, Polarized America, second edition 67

108

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

McGinn, Inborn Knowledge 51 Medosch, New Tendencies 59 Mental Time Travel, Michaelian 77 Metzinger, Open MIND, 2-vol. set 74 Meyer, What Was Contemporary Art? 89 Michael Asher, King 35 Michaelian, Mental Time Travel 77 Montfort, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities 84 Morse, Soft is Fast 30 Multicellularity, Niklas 73 Music and the Myth of Wholeness, Hodgkinson 57 Myth of the Moral Brain, Wiseman 77 Nafus, Quantified 60 Neff, The Quantified Self 21 Networks of the Brain, Sporns 91 Neuroscience of Creativity, Vartanian 96 New Earth Politics, Nicholson 66 New Tendencies, Medosch 59 Nicholson, New Earth Politics 66 Niklas, Multicellularity 73 Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus, Thomashow 87 Noah’s Ark, Damisch 26 Norman, Living with Complexity 86 Not-Two, Chiesa 23 Now the Chips Are Down, Gazzard 64 O’Neill, The Curatorial Conundrum 17 O’Rourke, Walking and Mapping 94 Of Remixology, Gunkel 78 Off-Track and Online, Kruse 82 ON&BY Andy Warhol, Williams 32 Open MIND, 2-vol. set, Metzinger 74 Outlaw Territories, Scott 37 Paarsch, A Gentle Introduction to Effective Computing in Quantitative Research 63 Papenburg, Sound as Popular Culture 80 Penix-Tadsen, Cultural Code 79 Pérez-Gómez, Attunement 25 Peters, How Not to Network a Nation 52 Philippopoulos, Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms 69 Pirate Philosophy, Hall 83 Polarized America, second edition, McCarty 67 Pragmatic Turn, Engel 74 Programming Models for Parallel Computing, Balaji 63

index

Progress and Confusion, Blanchard 9 Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms, Philippopoulos 69 Quantified Self, Neff 21 Quantified, Nafus 60 Queer, Getsy 34 Radicalism in the Wilderness, Tomii 31 Raunig, Dividuum 40 Ravi, Customer-Centric Marketing 70 Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931–1941, Farin 75 Regulation of International Trade, Volume 1, Mavroidis 68 Regulation of International Trade, Volume 2, Mavroidis 68 Reinhart, Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface 71 Reset Modernity!, Latour 6 Richards, Contiguity Theory 71 Rockwell, Hermeneutica 81 Ruparelia, Cloud Computing 20 Schrage, The Innovator’s Hypothesis 85 Schuster, The Trouble with Pleasure 24 Scott, Connectedness and Contagion 58 Scott, Outlaw Territories 37 Screen Ecologies, Hjorth 82 Security Requirements Engineering, Dalpiaz 61 Sestoft, Java Precisely, third edition 61 Sharing Economy, Sundararajan 2 Sharing the Work, Strober 12 Shifting Practices, Lanzara 60 Sibertin-Blanc, State and Politics 39 Soft is Fast, Morse 30 Software Abstractions, revised edition, Jackson 95 Sound as Popular Culture, Papenburg 80 Sporns, Discovering the Human Connectome 92 Sporns, Networks of the Brain 91 Stagg, Surveys 42 State and Politics, Sibertin-Blanc 39 Strober, Sharing the Work 12 Sturtevant, Lee 36 Sundararajan, Sharing Economy 2 Surveys, Stagg 42 Temin, Keynes 88 The Innovator’s Hypothesis, Schrage 85 The New Librarianship Field Guide, Lankes 47 Thomashow, The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus 87 Thompson, Why Photography Matters 89 Tomii, Radicalism in the Wilderness 31

Trouble with Pleasure, Schuster 24 Turing’s Vision, Bernhardt 10 Uncertain Reading, Glück 41 Updating to Remain the Same, Chun 54 Vartanian, Neuroscience of Creativity 96 Vision, Dowling 72 Walking and Mapping, O’Rourke 94 Water Resource Economics, second edition, Griffin 69 What Was Contemporary Art?, Meyer 89 Why Only Us, Berwick 5 Why Photography Matters, Thompson 89 Williams, ON&BY Andy Warhol 32 Winning the Reputation Game, Dowling 13 Wiseman, The Myth of the Moral Brain 77 Wittmann, Felt Time 15 Woodwell, A World to Live In 11 World to Live In, Woodwell 11 Yip, China’s Next Strategic Advantage 4 Yom-Tov, Crowdsourced Health 7 Zen-Brain Horizons, Austin 87 Zones of Control, Harrigan 79

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

109

recent highlights

$29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-0-262-02979-7

$29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-0-262-02963-6

$29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-0-262-02964-3

110

$24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-02994-0

$34.95T/£24.95 cloth 978-0-262-02946-9

$59.95T/£41.95 cloth 978-0-262-02996-4

spring 2016 | mitpress.mit.edu

$19.95T/£13.95 cloth 978-0-262-02989-6

$24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-02932-2

$19.95T/£13.95 cloth 978-0-262-02973-5

$24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-02945-2

$49.95T/£34.95 cloth 978-0-262-02997-1

recent highlights

$29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-0-262-02971-1

$39.95T/£27.95 cloth 978-0-262-02929-2

$21.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-52779-8

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52850-4

$24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-02923-0

$34.95T/£24.95 cloth 978-0-262-02927-8

$29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-1-935408-72-7

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52780-4

$24.95T/£17.95 paper 978-0-262-52810-8

$29.00S/£19.95 cloth 978-0-262-02976-6

$13.95T/£9.95 paper 978-1-58435-169-6

$32.00S/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-02933-9

mitpress.mit.edu | spring 2016

111

ReceNt HigHLigHts

$19.95T/£13.95 paper 978-0-262-52713-2

$24.95T/£17.95 cloth 978-0-262-02894-3

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52851-1

112

$17.95T/£12.95 cloth 978-0-262-02823-3

$27.95T/£19.95 cloth 978-0-262-02893-6

$13.95T/£9.95 paper 978-1-58435-167-2

spRiNg 2016 | mitpRess.mit.edU

$55.00T/£37.95 cloth 978-0-262-02901-8

$27.95T/£19.95 cloth 978-0-262-02847-9

$29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-1-935408-53-6

$27.95T/£19.95 cloth 978-0-262-02918-6

$27.95T/£19.95 cloth 978-0-262-02892-9

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-0-262-52773-6

$29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-0-262-02851-6

backlist highlights

$16.95T/£11.95 cloth 978-0-262-06266-4

$17.95T/£12.95 paper 978-0-262-02630-7

$27.95T/£19.95 paper 978-0-262-72006-9

$15.95T/£10.95 paper 978-1-58435-034-7

$32.95T/£22.95 paper 978-0-262-73154-6

$29.95T/£20.95 cloth 978-0-262-02760-1

$12.95T/£8.95 paper 978-1-58435-080-4

$18.95T/£13.95 cloth 978-0-262-01912-5

$22.95T/£15.95 cloth 978-0-262-13472-9

$48.95T/£33.95 cloth 978-0-262-01349-9

$22.95T/£15.95 paper 978-0-262-69349-3

$16.95T/£11.95 cloth 978-0-262-01621-6

978-0-262-52918-1

90000

9 780262 529181

Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 USA

the mit press One Rogers Street

Nonprofit Org. US Postage PAID Permit No. 54518 Boston, MA 02142